Pleurothallis dressleriana Bogarín 2014 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by A Krol and Richardiana 14: 104 Notes on Pleurothalidinae from Darien Gap Kolan. & Szlach. 2014

Common Name Dressler's Pleurothallis [American botanist in Central America 2019]

Flower Size .52" [1.3 cm]

Found in the Darien Gap of Panama at elevations around 400 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, subobtuse leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, subtended by a spathe, peduncle to .6" [15 mm] long, fascile of single flowered inflorescence with

"The glabrous, obliquely ovate petals of this species and the lack of apical, elevated, cellular-papillose callus allow for an easy differentiation between this s pecies and P eumecocaulon which occurs in both Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 600 to 1250 meters." Kolan. & Szlach. 2014

Synonyms *Ancipitia dressleri Kolan. & Szlach. 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Richardiana 14: 104 Notes on Pleurothalidinae from Darien Gap Kolan. & Szlach. 2014 drawing fide;

Lankesteriana 14: 241 Bogarin 2014

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