Pleurothallis viduata Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lost Pleurothallis [refers to the missing collection data]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador without locational data at elevations around 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicauls with a tubular bract above the base and 2 to 3 sheaths at the base carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect, ovate, acute, sessile leaf with a conduplicate, rounded base with the sides decurrent on the ramicaul that blooms several times a year on erect, arising from a reclining spathe, in a fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a single, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Identified by the white flowers with a purple patch on the petals and the tiny orbicular lip with a thick, rounded margin." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia viduata (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49: 221 Luer 1981;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
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 2004 as Ancipitia viduata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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