Pleurothallis urceolata Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Pitcher-Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the midlobe of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Napo, Carchi and Sucumbios provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 2900 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold, caespitose growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, slender to stout ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, cuneate to subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer through winter on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, erect to arching, subdense, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long including the 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with as long to longer than the pedicel floral braact.
”Characterized by the long ramicaul carrying an ovate leaf that blooms on a long many flowereed racemes with flowers with a concave synsepal and narrowly linear petals. The lip however is distinctive with oblong, conex, lateral lobes ad a broad, concave midlobe with a pointed, spoutlike tip.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 373 Luer 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide
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