Pleurothallis anthrax

 Pleurothallis anthrax Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 14: 130, fig (1981).

Pleurothallis anthrax Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is S. Colombia to Venezuela.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis anthrax Luer & R.Escobar

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Ancipitia anthrax (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer

English Name:

The Charcoal Pleurothallis (Refers to the anterior lobe of the lip).

Description: 

With slender, erect ramicauls, ancipitous above the middle, enveloped by 3 to 4 tubular sheaths at the base carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect, ovate, rounded base, shallowly cordate leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile of solitary successive flowers borne on a reclining, 5 mm long, filiform spathe arising at the base of the leaf and has a floral bract occuring in the winter.

Distribution:

Colombia, Venezuela.

Ecological:

On the slopes of the eastern Andes as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte at elevations of 2100 to 2600 m.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the winter.

Flower size:

1.0 cm

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Warm

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Typus:

Collector Team:

J.P.Luer, O.Ospina et al.,C.A.Luer 3724

Type Herbaria:

holotype SEL

Distribution Of Types:

Putumayo (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Aug 1, 2017 Luer, C. et al [12544], Colombia K000501826 paratype

Aug 1, 2017 Luer, C. et al [12544], Colombia K000501827 paratype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/202384-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:202384-2

- https://www.ecuagenera.com/Pleurothallis-anthrax/en

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleuranthrax.htm.