Pleurothallis giraffa Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl. 1859
Side View showing Elongate column
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Girrafe-Like Pleurothallis [refers to the long necked column]
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Imbaburua, Cotopaxi and Bolivar provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile and shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a reclining, arising through a spathe, succession of single flowered, racemose inflorescence and has thin tubular, half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"This is the only species of the Acronia group that I have seen with an elongated, arcuate column." Luer 1979
Synonyms Acronia giraffa (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos giraffa (Luer) Szlach. & Marg.2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia girrafa
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia girrafa drawing fide
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