Pleurothallis eumecocaulon Schltr.1923
SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.
Plant and Flower Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica Photo by © Wilfried Löderbusch
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Common Name The Long Stemmed Pleurothallis [refers to the length of the ramicaul]
Flower Size 1/4" [7 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in moist forests at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, slender, laterally compressed above the middle ramicaul, that has a tubular bract below the middle and 2 to 3 basal sheaths, a coriaceous, erect, narrowly ovate, acute leaf with its base cuneate to rounded, shallowly cordate and sessile. It blooms on 1 to 3, erect, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, fascile of solitary successive flowers borne from a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf.
Synonyms Ancipitia eumecocaulon (Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 187. 1923; Icones Pleurothallisinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989
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