Pleurothallis lanceana Lodd. 1831 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Another Clone? Much longer petals Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Full ShadeWarm to Winter through LATESummer

Common Name Lance's Pleurothallis [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela as well as Trinidad as a miniature, creeping or caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphyte that occurs in montane rain forest and evergreen forests at elevations of 0 to 2100 meters with a terete ramicaul with a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, thicker along the midrib, thickly coriaceous, gradually narrows below into the channeled petiole leaf and blooms on an apical, 4.5 to 5" [9 to 11 cm] long, pendulous, racemose, several flowered inflorescence with small, ovate-triangular, acuminate floral bracts that holds the flowers at mid-leaf or at leaf length and open in succession, all occuring in the winter through late summer.

Synonyms Acianthera lanceana (G.Lodd.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia crassifolia (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia crassifolia (Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia lanceana (Lodd.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis crassifolia Focke 1849; Pleurothallis huebneri Schltr. 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 238 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 2 Luer 1986; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 161 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera lanceana; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing good; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol1 2005 as Acianthera lanceana; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Acianthera lanceana

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