Pleurothallis portilloi Luer & R.Escobar 1982 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name Portillo's Pleurothallis [Co-Collector of species 1900's and 2000's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia on the eastern cordillera of the Andes at elevations around 1700 meters as a small sized, cool, growing, pendant, repent epiphyte with ramicauls enveloped by 2, fugacious, ablique, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, pendant, thinly coriaceous, mottled purple beneath, elliptical, slightly conduplicate, acute to subacute, cuneate at the sessile base leaf that blooms on a short, arising through a large, inflated, leaf-like sheath at the base of the leaf, congested, peduncle .12" [3 mm] long, successively single, 4 to 5 flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin, as long as the ovary floral bract.
Similar vegetatively to P calypso but the sepals are glabrous externally, the petals are unguiculate and the lip is obovate with the rounded apex minutely denticulate." Luer 2007
Synonyms Apoda-prorepentia portilloi (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 15 #2-3 1982 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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 Antilla portilloi;
Icones Pleurothallidiane A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Apoda-Repnetia Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Apoda-Prorepentia portilloi drawing ok
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