Pleurothallis dunstervillei Foldats 1968
SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by Eric Hunt
Photo by Walter Teague
Common Name Dunsterville's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiast]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela at elevations of 1100 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing, epiphyte in humid forest with stout, erect ramicauls that are terete below the middle and slightly compressed above the middle and carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect to spreading, ovate, acute leaf that is carinate externally that blooms in the spring on a fascile of a few to many single flowered, 3/4" [2 cm] long inflorescence that arise from a reclining spathe.
Synonyms Ancipitia dunstervillei (Foldats) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as P dunstervilleorum;
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