Myoxanthus cimex ( Luer & R.Escobar ) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antenella Luer 1992
Side View of Flower emphasizing the swollen apice of the petals
Photos by Egon Krogsgaard
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bug-Like Myoxanthus
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in the southwestern Cordillera of Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 to 7 tubular, hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the subpetiolate base and blooms in the summer on a fascile of single successive flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and with pubescent, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to Myoxanthus hystrix , Myoxanthus melittanthus and Myoxanthus reymondii but distinguished by the caespitose habit, seoals minutely pubescent externally and internally, petals markedly clavatesimilar to M reymondii and a lobelesss lip similar to M hystrix and M melittanthus. The columns of all three species are similar. The possibility of M cimex being a natural hybrid between M hystrix or M melittanthus and M reymondii should be considered." Luer 1992
Synonyms *Pleurothallis cimex Luer & R.Escobar R. 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 as Pleurothallis cimex drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 Drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide; A taxonomic synopsis and morphological characterization of Myoxanthus (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) Gustavo Rojas-Alvarado, Mario A. Blanco, A. P. Karremans 2021 Photo fide
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