Pleurothallis phrynoglossa Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Kraenzlinella (Kuntze) Luer 1986
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Photos courtesy of Christian Gegenbauer
Common Name The Toads Tongue Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, shortly repent epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, apical, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on a subcongested, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with oblique, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to P lappago in habit but perhaps with a shorter ramicaul. The flowers however are larger with the sepals and the eptals sharply acute. Most distinctive is the large unguiculate , warty lip." Luer 1998
CAUTION! The Drawing above is absolutely correct, the first photo is correct, the others I am sure are not this species but another unnamed species.
Synonyms Kraenzlinella phrynoglossa (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 fide to the drawing/photos maybe;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Kraenzlinella phyrnoglossa;
Phytotaxa 275: 272 Doucette 2016 as Acianthera phrynoglossa;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera phrynoglossa photo fide
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