Myoxanthus aspasicensis (Rchb. f.) Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Silenia Luer 1992 Photo courtesy of Nigel Carter

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Common Name The Aspasica Myoxanthus [Town in the province of Santander, Colombia]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found from Costa Rica south to Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte of moist forests, but it can also be encountered growing as a lithophyte or terresrial on sandstone outcrops in open habitats of southern Venezuela, at elevations of 550 to 1900 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base that blooms on a fascile of one to several, reptilian, singular flowers ariseing from the deep cleft of the conduplicate base of the leaf, occuring in the winter and spring

Synonyms Humboltia aspasicensis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Myoxanthus alexanderae (Schltr.) Luer 1922; Myoxanthus pastacensis (Luer) Luer 1986; Pleurothallis alexandrae Schltr. 1923; *Pleurothallis aspasicensis Rchb. f. 1855; Pleurothallis pastacensis Luer 1976

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