Pleurothallis ripleyi Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning Ripley's Pleurothallis [American Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province ? of Ecuador in shady, wet tropical forests at elevations around 1900 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to arching, slender ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying an arcuate to descending, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-linear, acute, often with revolute margins, shallowly cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short, enclosed by a reclining spathe, fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel and carrying a non-resupinate flower held close to the leaf base.
Disitnguished by the slender ramicaul that bends above and bears a long, slender, pendent leaf. The somewhat smaller, non-resupinate flower is similar to P variabilis but differs in the oblong, shorter petals with minutely serrated margins and the base of the lip is concave to accomodate a red-papillose, bulbous tip of the column foot.
Synonyms Acronia ripleyi (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos ripleyi (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 178 Luer 1979. Drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 210 Dodson 1980;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ripleyi;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ripleyi drawing fide
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