Pleurothallis sabanillae M.M.Jiménez & Vélez-Abarca 2023SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Photos/TYPE Drawing by © Jimenez, Wilson and L Velez-Abarca and Phytotaxa 607 (3) © Five new species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae from Southeastern Ecuador M Jimenez, Velez-Abarca, Mashendo-Jimbicti, Garzon-Suarez, Monteros amd Mark Wilson 2023
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Common Name The Sabanilla Pleurothallis [Named after Sabanilla, known also as El Tambo, an eminent farming village in the Zamora Chinchipe Province of Ecuador close to the type locality]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador in lower montane forests near or on very steep slopes at elevations around 2000 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, descending to pendent epiphyte with very slender, suberect, terete ramicauls enveloped by 1 papyraceous sheath at the base and one below the middle and carrying a single, erect, deflexed, coriaceous, microscopically papillate, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, channeled in the middle, acuminate at the apex, deeply cordate with the lobes unequal, sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, arising through a suberect, spathaceous bract, fascicle of successively single flowered inflorescence with a infundibuliform, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Pleurothallis sabanillae belongs to the Pleurothallis cardiostola-lilijae complex, a group within the subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae according to Luer (2005) and Wilson et al. (2022). The new species is most similar to Pleurothallis lilijae, but is distinguished by the shorter plants (up to 36 cm vs. 45 cm tall) and flowers (1.1 × 1.6 vs. 1.6 × 2.2 cm), the purple flowers (vs. pale yellowish brown), the strongly deflexed dorsal sepal (vs. erect), strongly recurved petals (vs. slightly deflexed), the broadly ovate lip (vs. ovate-triangular) and the purple column (vs. purple and white)." M Jimenez, Velez-Abarca, Mashendo-Jimbicti, Garzon-Suarez, Monteros amd Mark Wilson 2023
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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