Pleurothallis jimii Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986

Inflorescence

Side View of Flower

Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website

Full Shade LATESpringTHROUGH Summer

Common Name Jim's Pleurothallis [Mr Hamilton, American Nurseryman Current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia without collection data with slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above the base and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, rigid, elliptical-ovate, acute, carinate externally, cuneate into the conduplicate and decurrent onto the ramicaul, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer on a fascile of slender, erect, .4" [1 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe above the base of the leaf

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia jimii

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