Pleurothallis lappacea Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
Photos by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Walter Teague.
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Burr Pleurothallis [refers to the ovary]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters as a cool growing, shortly repent epiphyte with more or less ascending rhizome giving rise to suberect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender, .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the small, ascending habit,a single flower borne by a peduncle about as long as the sepals, a densely long-spiculate ovary, a pubescent dorsal sepal and broad synsepal, minute ciliate petals and a minutely verrucose, subquadrate lip. The lip is shallowly bilobed with the corners at both the apex and base rounded." Luer 2000
Synonyms Andinia lappacea (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Andinia lappacea;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Andinia lappacea photos fide
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