Pleurothallis lueriana Karremans & Rodr.-Mart. 2017 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by David Haelterman and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Karremans & Rodr.-Mart.
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Common Name Luer's Pleurothallis [American Botanist and Pleurothallidinae expert died 2019]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia on the eastern side of the Cordillera Occidental in cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, thin, 4 angled ramicauls enveloped by tubular, close to the base, papyraceous bracts and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, green sometimes suffused with broadly-elliptic, acute, apiculate, and with a small mucron, sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring and again in the late fall on an ascending, short, peduncle slender, erct, .4" [1 cm] long, subfascile of successively single, 5 to 10 flowered peduncles longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to P viduata but characterized by the large habit, a sharply ancipitous ramicaul with decurrent margins of the base of the leaf. The flowers are fleshy with obtuse, ovoid dorsal sepal and synsepal, the eptals are large and thick with terete apices and the lip is intricaately sculpted with erose carinae and crested margins." Luer 2004
"Amongst the species of SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986 , P. lueriana is immediately distinguished by the thick, dark purple, obtrapezoid lip, with erect lateral lobes, and the pair of apical, retrorse, arm-like lobes on the column. The lip and column of Pleurothallis membracidoides is somewhat similar, but the new species can be easily distinguished by the pubescent petals (vs. glabrous), the fully dark purple lip (vs. basally purple, and yellow-white above the middle) with a conspicuously warty apex along the lateral lobes (vs. inornate lateral lobes) and the conspicuous, pubescent, arm-like lobes near the apex of the column (vs. inconspicuously lobed, non-pubescent)." Rodr.-Mart & Karremans 2017
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; < Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as P jimii
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as P jimii drawing fide;
* LANKESTERIANA 17(2): 257 Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 photo/drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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