Pleurothallis onagriceps Luer & Hirtz 1989 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo By Patricia Harding.
Photo By Nelocactus Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Donkey Head Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers shape]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests as a cool growing, caespitose epiphyte at elevations of 1550 to 1660 meters with erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with the base rounded and shallowly cordate that blooms in the spring on erect, arising through a reclining spathe, in a fascile of .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered, inflorescence with about half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to Pleurothallis crocodiliceps but instead of white and obtuse the sepals are yellow, dotted with black below the middle and acute. The tiny lip also shows a close relationship, but instead of narrowly pointed, the lateral lobes are broad and membraneous and folded over the front of the lip like a pair of large, hairy, floppy ears." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia onagriceps (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Ancipitia onagriceps
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
