Pleurothallis glabra Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

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Common Name The Glabrous Pleurothallis [refers to the completely smooth floral parts]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1500 to 1850 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring and fall on a shortly ascending, arising through and concealed by a slender spathe, peduncle .08" [2 mm] long, fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with longer to as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carrying dull purple flowers.

"All floral parts are glabrous and entire, the petals are broad and three veined, the broadly ovate lip is hinged at the base without the usual flattening or being deflexed. The column is short with an entire, single lobed stigma." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia glabra (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos glabra (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquideología 20: 56. Luer 1996 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia glabra

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia glabra drawing fide;

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