Pleurothallis solium Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photos by © Francis J Quesada-Pallares
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Armchair Pleurothallis [refers to the shape of the lip]
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, basally rounded, subcordate and sessile leaf that blooms in the late winter on suberect, arising through a reclining spathe, filiform, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, in a fascile of successively, single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Easily distinguished by the four lobed, subquadrate lip that looks like a microscopic armchair." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia solium (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleuorthallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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