Pleurothallis ximenae Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Ximena's Pleurothallis [Mrs Portilla Ecuadorian Orchid Nurserywoman current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2, loose, tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on a descending to pendent, arisingthrough a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul, finely long-pubescent, weak, flexible, lax, distichous, subflexuous, peduncle to 2" [5 cm] long, rachis to 8" [to 20 cm] long, successively1 to 2, several to many flowered inflorescence with glabrous, as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P cypripedioides but the peduncle and rachis are finely long-pubescent, the pedicels are shorter, the ovary is long-villois, the petals are three crested and the column foot is pubscent." Luer 2004
Synonyms Effusiella ximenae (Luer) Luer 2007; Specklinia ximenae Luer 2005; Stelis oscargrouchii Karremans 2015
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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 Specklinia ximenae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Specklinia ximenae;
as Effussiella ximenae;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Specklinia ximenae photo fide;
Phytotaxa 203: 293 Karremans 2015 as Stelis oscargrouchii;
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