Pleurothallis renieana (Luer & Sijm) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photos by © Wiel Driessen
TYPE Drawing of Ancipitia reneieana
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Renie's Pleurothallis [Wife of Wiel Driessen Dutch Orchidiologist current]
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a small to medium sized, caespitose, presumed epiphyte with stout, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle ramicauls witha sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, ovate,a cute, more or less conduplicate at the cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a fascile of up to 10, peduncle slender, erect to suberect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, simultaneously occuring, single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, longer than the ovary floral bract and carrying snow white, fleshy flowers with the small lip suffused with red purple. .
"Similar to P dunstervillei with multiple, long pedicellate flowers, but the flowers more closely resemble Pleurothallis crocodiliceps . The plant is large with a compressed ramiucal that is ,2" [5 mm] broad at the leaf. The inflorescence is a fascile of numerous, long-pedicellate flowers with snow white sepals and petals and a small lip suffused with red purple. As in P crocodieliceps a minute pair of basal lobes curve inward before the narrowly acute tips are abruptly bent outward. The body of the lip is ovoid and concave witha concave callus within, towards the apex." Luer 2011
Synonyms *Ancipitia renieana Luer & Sijm 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 319 Luer & Sijm 2011 as Ancipita reniaeana drawing fide;
Orchid Rev. 122: 77 JMH Shaw 2014
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