Pleurothallis lagarophyta Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Lanky Plant Pleurothallis [refers to the slender plant habit]

Flower Size .4 [1 cm]

Found in Huanaco department of Peru as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, distichous, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Characterized by the long, extremely slender leaves about .2" [5 mm] wide. The racemes of white flowers with long, narrrow sepals is shorter than the leaf. The eptals are rounded at the apex. The lip is obovate and shallowly concave between a pair of low calli and there are no verrucosities present at the apex." Luer 1999

Synonyms Anathallis lagarophyta (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis tenuifolia var. longisepala C.Schweinf. 1953; Specklinia lagarophyta (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis lagarophyta (Luer) Karremans 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 16: 55 C Schweinfurth 1953 as Pleurothallis tenuifolia var. longisepala C.Schweinfurth;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis lagarophyta;

Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia lagarophyta;

LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis lagarophyta

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