Pleurothallis pyelophera [Luer] comb. novo. Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Bill Pinnix
TYPE Drawing by © © Carl Luer
Common Name The Pin Tub-Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the lip shape]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador without collection data as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramcauls enveloped by a loose sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 short sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading to more or less horizontal, rigidly coriaceous, dark green, ovate, sides more or less inrolled, below the middle, acute, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a short, arising through and concealed by a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
This species is related and superficially similar to P cardiostola but the non-resupinate, prominently purple striped flower rests at the base of the horizontal to descending, rigidly coriaceeous, dark green leaf. The uppermost synsepal is scaphoid and the middle sepal is round. The lip is thickly ovoid and concave in the center with broad border and has a warty appearance.
Synonyms Acronia pyelophera Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006as Acronia pyelophera
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006as Acronia pyelophera drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 5 2009 as Acronia pyelophera photo fide;
* The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia IOSPE Nomenclature Note 12/16/13 #4 Pfahl 2013;
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