Pleurothallis zumbae Luer & Hirtz 2003 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website.
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Zumba Pleurothallis [A town in southernmost Ecuador]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender erect, ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath on the lower half and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .6" [1,5 cm] long, fascile of erect, slender, successively 1, few flowered inflorescence with close, just shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Chjaracterized by the slender ramicaul and equally as long, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf. A drak purple, fleshy flower is often folowed by a second, is borne in a peduncle .6" [1.5 cm] long, ina a fascile at the base of the leaf. With reflexed sides the lateral sepals are decurved beyond the tube and the archiate tip lies exposed on the center. The lip is broadly rounded at the apex and bilobulate at the base." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera zumbae (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia Vol 22 #3 2003 drawing fide;
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