Pleurothallis ortegae Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of Walter Teague
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Ortega's Pleurothallis [Ecuadorian co-discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another on the lower third and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, acutely deflexed, cordate-ovate, acute, basally sessile, more or less concave and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the winter, late summer and early fall on a fascile, arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe, of successive single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as the pedicel florla bract and holding the flower close against the leaf base
Similar to P cardiostola but differs in the broad, obtuse, glabrous sepals, the entire, glabrous, sagittate, unguiculate petals and a transversely cordate, concave lip with an obtusely, acuminate apex with a thickened margin with the inner suface being cellular-papillose.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex.
Synonyms Acronia ortegae (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos ortegae (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 174 Luer & Hirtz 1996 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia ortegae;
Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 as P cf ortegae photo fide;
OrchideenJ. 25: 55 Schuiteman 2018;
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