Pleurothallis loejtnantii Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Loejtnant's Pleurothallis [Danish co-discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Sucumbios province of Ecuador in wet lowland forests at elevations under 300 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on a an erect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, distchous, to 4.8" [12 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, peduncle, subdensely and simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the narrowly ovate leaves surpassed by a distichous, raceme of several small purple flowers. The synsepal is deeply boat-shaped, narrowly linear petals have a thickened, subclavate, obtuse apex and the lip is trilobed with broadly rounded lateral lobes and a small, concave middle lobe between and deflexed the base." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 166 Luer 1996 drawing fide;
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