Pleurothallis praecipua Luer 1980

SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens.

Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of Walter Teague.

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Common Name The Peculiar Pleurothallis Flower Size 1/5" [6 mm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1650 to 1900 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle, enveolped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and another tubular sheath below the middle carrying a rigid, coriaceous, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, carinate externally, somewhat conduplicate leaf with an obtusely cunate, sessile base that blooms on a 1 3/4" [3.4 cm] long, fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from a reclining spathe.

Synonyms Ancipitia praecipua (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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