Pleurothallis onagriceps Luer & Hirtz 1989 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986 Photo By Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Donkey Head Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers shape]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador in cloud forests as a warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1550 to 1660 meters with erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with the base rounded and shallowly cordate that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successively single flowered, 3/5" [1.5 cm] long inflorescnece that arise from a reclining spathe.

Synonyms Ancipitia onagriceps (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989

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