Pleurothallis lehmanniana Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Lehmann's Pleurothallis [German Engineer, Counsel to Colombia and Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size .2 [5 mm]
Found in Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo departments of southern Colombia and Succumbios province of northernmost Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3400 meters as a large sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, fasciculate, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 4, large, loose, imbricating sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of several, arising through a broad spathe with an annulus at the apex of the ramicaul below the abscission layer, simultaneous, erect, congested, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Distinguished by the great size of the ramicauls and ovate, shortly petiolate leaves. Fasciles of numerous, erect racemes of small, yellowish flowers are produced from a thick spathe. The sepals are obtuse, ciliate and pubescent the narrrowly oblong petlas are three veined and the lip is oblong with an erect pair of callous-thickened lobes just above the middle that cannot be spread and with an obtuse, transversely callous middle lobe." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe lehmanniana (Schltr.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis endotrachys F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Linnaea 41: 95. Rchb. f. 1876 as P endotrachys nom illegal;
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 439 F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 as P endotrachys nom illegal;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 235 Schltr. 1920;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
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 Crocodeilanthe lehmanniana;
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