Pleurothallis lopezii Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Photo by © Ana Maria Benavides and her Picasweb Orchid Webpage
TYPE Drawing TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Lopez' Pleurothallis [Colombian Nurseryman with Colomborquideas current]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2600 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout erect ramicauls enveloped basally by a close fitting, tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, acuminate, sessile and deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, distichous, strict, arising through a reclining spathe, 12 to 14" [30 to 35 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Readily distinguished by the large, prolific habit. The lax raceme is long, strict and erect and the pedicels are elongate. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are simila, ovate and acuminate. The petals are deeply fringed. The lip is broadly cordate with eret, rounded basal lobes with the margins of the middle lobe minutely fimbriate. In the center of the disc there is a well defined, minute, rounded callus." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia lopezii (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 21 #1 Luer & Escobar 1998 drawing/photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia lopezii;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide
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