Pleurothallis nossax Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by © Jay Pfahl plant grown by Arturo Carrillo.
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Yonug-Bird Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the flower to a gaping mouth and tongue]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender, terete ramicauls enveloepd basally by 1 to 2 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, basally sessile and cordate leaf that blooms in the winter on a short, arising through a fugacious spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a close, tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract and holds the flower close against the leaf base.
"The large gaping flower rests on top of the leaf. The sepals reflex above deeply concave bases to reveal the pointed lip flanked by the pointed petals lying upon the downcurved synsepal. The lip is remarkably long-unguiculate." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia nossax [Luer & Escobar] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos nossax (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 14 #2 161 Luer & Escobar 1981 Drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia nossax
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia nossax drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo fide as Acronia nossax;
Orquideología Vol 26 #2 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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