Pleurothallis dorotheae Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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BiColor flower with different leaf shape
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Common Name or Meaning Dorothea's Pleurothallis [Daughter of Charles Lankester American in Costa Rica]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the lower half and 1 to 2 others at the base leaf and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, rigid, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate and sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with the peduncle concealed within and carrying thin tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and a non-resupinate flower.
*Characterized by the densely caespitose habit, thick,hard leaves, little pale green, non resupinate, rounded flower with carinate petals and a rounded, apiculate lip with basal auricles." Luer 1980
Synonyms Acronia dorotheae (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Phytologia 46(6): 365 Luer 1980 ;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia dorothea;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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