Pleurothallis sobrina Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Cousin Pleurothallis [refers to its similarity to P caudae-phocae]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, lightly acuminate, subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on erect, arising through a spathe, a fascile of slender, to .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long peduncles, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with as long as the ovary floral bract.
"Disitnguished by the single flower with proportionally lon, slender ramicauls. The inflorescence is a fascile of long-pedunculate flowers borne from the base of an ovate-subcordate leaf. The flower is distinguished by its small size, sepals without tails and a three lobed lip with the small middle lobe narrowly triangular and the erect lateral lobes broadly uncinate flanking the column." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia sobrina (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11:185 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing/photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia sobrina
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