Pleurothallis ocellus (Luer) Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Andreettaea Luer 1986
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Little Eye Pleurothallis [refers to the parting of the lateral sepals to form a "Window" upper surface of the flowers]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 2800 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose lithophyte or epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and winter on an erect, arising from a node on the ramicaul, slender, .6 t o.8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long lax, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with thin, infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by dark purple, non-resupinate flowers produced successively in a loos, few flowered raceme about as long as the leaves. The acuminate tips of all three sepals are connivent, only the uppermost lateral sepals parting above their middle to expose the undersurface of the tip of the lip within. The lip is concave and long-villous below the incinate lateral lobes at the middle." Luer 2006
Synonyms Andreettaea ocellus Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Andreettaea ocellus
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andreettaea ocellus photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):6 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea ocellus
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