Pleurothallis trifurcata Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The 3 Pronged Lip Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Nariño department of Colombia and Tungurahua, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of southeastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 2600 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, shortly acuminate, broadly to narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on 1 to 2, arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf,erect to arching, 3.2 to 8" [8 to 20 cm] long, loose, simultaneouwly several flowered inflorescence with an as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P saltatoria but differs mostly in the deeply trifurcate lip which is trilobed withan ovate middle lobe and the lateral lobes obliquely obtuse." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 190 Luer & Hirtz 1996
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