Pleurothallis cubitoria Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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Common Name The Lounging Pleurothallis [suggesting a snooze in a chaise lounge]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2600 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a suberect to horizontal, slender ramicaul enveloped by a close tubular sheath near the middle and 2, others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, rounded and shallowly cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a short, arising through and concealed by a slender spathe, held flat against the leaf, successively single, inflorescence and has a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
This species is related to Pleurothallis microcardia and P tamaensis differing mostly in the long narrow leaf and a dorsal sepal that surpasses the leaf base along the ramicaul, The petals are also very long and reach to longer than the margins of the leaf.
Synonyms Acronia microcardia subsp. cubitoria (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos cubitorius (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49: 202 Luer 1981
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia microcardia subs cubitoria
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia microcardia subs cubitoria drawing fide
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