Myoxanthus hirsuticaulis (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photos by © Bogarin and the of The Epidendra Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Hairy Stemed Myoxanthus [refers to the hirsute sheaths of the ramicauls]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Peru at elevations of 650 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 8, tubular, hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through early spring on a fascile of single successively flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul through a spathe and has pubescent, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the caespitose habit, slender leaves, a medium sized flower with deep purple, thick, terete petals protruding and a subquadrate lip with deeply fringed margins." Luer 1992
Synonyms *Pleurothallis hirsuticaulis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Schedul. Orch. 10: 29. 1930 as Pleurothallis hisuticaulis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 Drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 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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