Pleurothallis lobata Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Lobed Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .25" [6.1 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in wet forests at elevations around 2000 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with very slender, erect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, narrowly subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an ascending, arising through and concealed mostly by a slender spathe, short, in a fascile of successively single, long-pedunculate, slender, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence with infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the very slender ramicauls and leaves. The inflorescence is a fascile of successive, long-pedunculate flowers borne from the base of the leaf. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are narrowly concave, the petals are narrowly acuminate and the lip is three lobed with the lateral lobes large, rounded and erect flanking the column while the much smallermiddle decurves. The base is firmly attached to the base of the footless column." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia lobata (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 20: 214. Luer 1996 Drawing fide;