Pleurothallis siphonantha Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Tube-Like Flower Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 3050 meters as a small sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with stout, fasciculate, erect ramcauls enveloped by a close sheath near the middlwe and 2 to 3 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later winter on a 3 to 6, congested, secund, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 5.2 to 6" [13 to 15 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Distinguished by the long, stout ramicauls , thickly coriaceous, sessile leaves and a few, secund, densely many flowered racemes nearly as long as the leaf. The sepals are fleshy and connate to near the middle into an arched tube, only the free parts of the laterals more or less decurved. The petals are proportionally large and truncate. The ovoid lip, bearing a pair of calli near the middle, is broadly hinged below a transverse carina to the column foot. The column is stout with a hooded apex that is minutely serrate." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe siphonantha (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis siphonantha (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:266 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis siphonantha;
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 2004as Crocodeilanthe siphonantha
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