Pleurothallis panica Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Pan-Like Pleurothallis [An allusion to the spiculate lateral sepals and the papillose lip and ovary]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Sucumbios province of Ecuador at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with an erect,slender ramicaul enveloped completely by 2 thin, loose, tubular, ribbed sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, slender, .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with an oblique, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"This species of the SUBGENUS aenigma consists of a tiny clump of elliptical leaves barely surpassed by a peduncle bearing a proportionally large flower. The dorsal sepals and much smaller petals are acute, the oblong lateral sepals are spiculate-pubescent and the transversely trilobed lip is similar to P hystricosa except wider and more pilose." Luer & Dalstrom 1996
Synonyms Andinia panica (Luer & Dalström) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997;
Lindleyana 16(4): 258. (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Andinia panica;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia panica photo fide
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