Pleurothallis carrenoi Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1987 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by © James E. McCulloch and Species Identification Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Carreno's Pleurothallis [Costa Rican Orchid Enthusiast and Co-collector of species current]]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations around 850 to 890 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 shorter others at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute, sessile below into the cordate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a reclining, arising through a suberect, conduplicate spathe, in a fascile of short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Distinguished by the much smaller plant and much smaller flowers.
Synonyms Acronia carrenoi [Carnevali & Ramirez] Luer 2005; Zosterophyylanthos carrenoi [Carnevali & Ramirez] Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia carrenoi;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia carrenoi drawing fide ;
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