Pleurothallis penelops Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Duck-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1650 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short sheaths and a longer one below the middle and carrying a acutely deflexed, coriaceous, narrowly cordate-ovate, acuminate and curved up above the middle, basally sessile and cordate leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile, arising through a suberect to reclining spathe, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, as long a sthe pedicel floral bract and holding the flower against the leaf base.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Distinguished by the deflexed, narrowly cordate, upwardly curved beyond the middle leaf with a deflexed spathe giving rise to a dark purple flower with acutely reflexed sepals and petals with a protruding lip and a white column." Carl Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia penelops [Luer]Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos penelops (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia penelops;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia penelops drawing fide ; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
