Pleurothallis neodubbeldamii J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing of Ancipitia dubbeldamii by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Dubbeldam's New Pleurothallis [Dutch collector of the species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in San Martin department of Peru at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect subancipitous ramicauls enveloped by 2 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall a short, erect-arching, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .2" [5 mm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying bright green flowers.
"The very slender ramicauls, only .04" [1 mm] wide and deep, are semiterete, not ancipitous and obnly slightly compressed, were it not for the strange lip, it migh belong to the section Acronia instead of Ancipitia. The single flowered inflorescnece arises from the apex of the ramicaul atr the base of a sessile leaf. The sepals are fleshy with the laterals connate into a concave synsepal. The petals are thick and narrowly linear. The lip is ovoid and concave with thin, minutely lacerate margins. A thick callus like a blunt rhinoceros horn arises above the acute tip." Luer 2011
Synonyms *Ancipitia dubbeldamii Luer & Sijm 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 319 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011 as Ancipitia dubbeldamii drawing fide;
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