Pleurothallis lamia Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Bugbear Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the flower]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador at elevations of 2900 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with erect, sharply 3 winged, thicker towards the apex ramicauls with 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute to subacute, sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on an ascending-arching, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, a fascile of successive, congested, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with tubular as long as the ovary floral bracts.
" This large species is related to P. sicaria, but differs in the large size as well as the possession of a pair of horseshoe-shaped calli on the lip." Luer 1975
"Long, broadly winged ramicauls bear a sonsiderably shorter leaf with the margins of the leaf and wings of the ramicaul are continuous. A few dark purple, fleshy, shortly but densel;y pubescent flowers are brone ina short raceme. The sepals are tuberculate within, the petals are serrate and the thick lip ids distinguished by a prominent pair of oblique calli. Related to P pantasmoides but P lamia is distinguished by small, thicker flowers with a pair of prominent, oblique calli on the lip." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera lamia (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Selbyana 5(2): 170. Luer 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:244 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera lamia;
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera lamia;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera lamia photo fide
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