Pleurothallis paquishae Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Paquisha Pleurothallis [Military Camp in Zamora-Chinchipe: Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador]
Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]
Found in Napo and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of southern Ecuador and Amazonas department of northern Peru in wet forests at elevations of [600] 1200 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphytic or lithophytic species with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by two basal tubular sheaths and another in the lower quarter carrying a single, apical, spreading or horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with a sessile base and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile, subtended by a narrow spathe nestled in the base of the leaf, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence witha tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract.
Characterized by the acute sepals with the dorsal also narrow and three veined, the petals are wide spread, narrow and minutely denticulate and the lip is ovate, obtuse and minutely spiculate and has a small basal glenion.
Similar species are P. applanata and P ariana-dayanae and P scabrilinguis
Synonyms Acronia paquishae [Luer] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos paquishae (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 176 Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing ok as Acronia paquishae;
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