Pleurothallis nangaritzae M.M.Jiménez, Tobar & Mark Wilson 2016 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
LCDP Photo by Mark Wilson & Werner
Common Name The Nangaritza River Pleurothallis [A river in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador] ]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador adpressed to tree trunks in a lower montane forest at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 papery basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous and heavily veined, deflexed, almost totally plain, ovate, acute, apiculate, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, arising through a reclining spathe, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying a resupinate flower.
"Pleurothallis nangaritzae is recognized by its large leaf size to flower size ratio; glossy, heavily veined leaf; broad petals; and papillate acute lip with shallowly bilobed glenion." Mark Wilson, Luis Baquero, Katharine Dupree, Marco M. Jiménez, Cheryl M. LeBlanc, Gilberto Merino, Jose Portilla, Marcos Salas Guerrero, Francisco Tobar Suárez & Jon D. Werner 2016
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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