Pleurothallis lamellaris Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by Rodrigo Escobar
Photo by Richard Korber.
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lamina Pleurothallis [refers to the calli of the lip]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia, Zamra-Chinchipe and Loja provinces of Ecuador, Cusco department of Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1950 to 2930 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and another close to the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with a cordate, sessile base that blooms in the spring on an arcuate, subtended basally by a spathe, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence with an infundibulbar, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract holding the simultaneously opening flowers out and away from the leaf.
"Distinguished by the stout ramicaul carrying a single, ovate, cordate leaf that blooms on an arching raceme of relatively large flowers with sepals intenely striped in purple, extremely thick petals adherent to each other and a rounded, bicallous, minutely denticulate lip with broad basal lobes clasping the column." Luer 1999
Synonyms Humboldtia lamellaris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; Humboltia lamellaris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis loxensis Luer & Hirtz 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fol. Orchid. 9: 8 Lindley 1859;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana 11: 167 Luer & Hirtz 1996 as P loxensis drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as P loxensis photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing/photo fide
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as P loxensis drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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