Pleurothallis persimilis Luer & Hirtz 2003 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

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Common Name The Very Similar Pleurothallis [refers to its similarity to P coriocardia]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in El Oro province of Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a close, tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, rounded and shallowly cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long, arising through a narrow spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying a flower with maroon, microscopically ciliate sepals, purple maroon petals and lip.

"The flower is similar to P coriacardia but the petals are elongate and longer than the lip. Vegetatively it is slender with a narrowly ovate leaf. The sepals are brown, acute and microscopically ciliate. The petals are narrow, acute and denticulate and the lip is oblong and covered with minute verrucae." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia persimilis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos persimilis (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquideología Vol 22 #3 pg 268, 270-271, 286. 2003 Luer & Hirtz drawing fide;

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

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

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