Pleurothallopsis pandurata (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
Photos by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom, Sweden
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lute-Shaped Pleurothallopsis
Flower Size .6" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a .15" to .18" [3 to 4 mm] long, succession of single flowers held in a fascile arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
"Similar to P tubulosa but is distinguished by the small habit, sepals and petals are more or less the smae but in P pandurata ar prominently veined in purple or brown. The lip od P pandurata is constricted bewlow the middle where the margins are fimbriate. Instead of obtuse the basal lobes of P pandurata are acute and poined forward as they are in P inaequalis." Luer 1991
Synonyms *Restrepiopsis pandurata Luer 1991
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis pandurata drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2017 photo fide;
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