Myoxanthus scandens (Ames) Luer 1982 Subgen Myoxanthus sec Scandentia Luer 1992 Photo courtesy of Charles G. Wilson

To

Common Name The Scandent Myoxanthus [refers to the growth habit]

Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, as well as Ecuador at elevations of 300 to 1650 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with small plants separated by an 8" long stem connecting each plantlet having a 1" long, slender, erect, flexilble ramicaul that has a single apical, narrowly elliptical leaf narrowly cuneate below into a subpetiolate base that gives rise at most any time of the year to a terminal, short, single flowered inflorescence that holds the flower close to the leaf base.

Synonyms Pleurothallis pennellia Luer 1976; *Pleurothallis scandens Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 as P scandens; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970 as Pleurothallis scandens; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1373 Atwood 1989; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus 1992; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------