Pleurothallis rectipetala Ames & Schweinf. 1925 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of Dave Alford
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Erect Petal Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cartago, Puntarenas and San jose provinces of Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool to hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short sheaths and another longer one below the middle and carrying a single, apical, deflexed, coriaceous, broadly cordate-ovate, concave, acute, basally deeply cordate with overlapping lobes and sessile leaf that blooms in the spring on a arising from a suberect, conduplicate spathe, fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the diffusely short pubescent, yellow and purple sepals and petals, the synsepal broader than the dorsal sepal amd the ovate, cellular-pappilose lip." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia rectipetala [Ames & Schweinf.] Luer 2005; Acronia scitula (Luer) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis scitula Luer 1977; Zosterophyllanthos rectipetalus (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orch. 8: 32 Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925;
Selbyana 3(3–4): 384, f. 292. Luer 1977 as P scitula drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia rectipetala
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia rectipetala drawing fide ;
LANKESTERIANA 17(2) Pupulin, J.Aguilar & M.Díaz 2017;
Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 26, No. 1 2021, The Researchgate Website photo/drawing fide;
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