Pleurothallis praecipua Luer, Phytologia 46: 370 (-371) (1980).
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| Pleurothallis praecipua Luer, Photo by Kevin Holcomb |
its native range is E. Ecuador.
Latin Name:
Pleurothallis praecipua Luer
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Ancipitia praecipua (Luer) Luer.
English Name:
The Peculiar Pleurothallis.
Description:
With slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle, enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and another tubular sheath below the middle and carrying a rigid, coriaceous, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, carinate externally, somewhat conduplicate leaf with an obtusely cunate, sessile base that blooms in the summer on a 3.4 cm long, fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from a reclining spathe.
Distribution:
Ecuador.
Ecological:
In cloud forests at elevations of 1650 to 1900 m as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Bloome in the summer.
Flower size:
6.0 mm
Cultivation:
Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.
Typus:
Collector Team:
C.A.Luer, A.C.Hirtz, J.P.Luer 4484
Type Herbaria:
holotype SEL
Distribution Of Types:
Napo (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
- theplantlist.org
- https://www.ipni.org/n/203395-2
- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:203395-2
- http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurpraecipua.htm.
- https://orchids.fandom.com
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