Pleurothallis troglodytes Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Geändert von Gast and The German Orchideen Forum Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Shade Loving Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Esmeraldas and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 900 to 1450 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 short, tubular sheaths and another longer one below the middle and carrying a single, apical, acutely deflexed, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, acute, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile, arising through an erect, conduplicate spathe, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bract and holding the non-resupinate flower close against the concave leaf base.
"Similar to P pecularis but distinguished by the broader, non-spotted leaves, transversely ovate sepals and a lip with the lateral angles below the middle and a tall callus at the base. Luer 2005
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex.
Synonyms Acronia troglodytes (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos troglodytes (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak, Richardiana 6: 194 (2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia troglodytes
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia troglodytes drawing fide ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 as Acronia troglodytes photo fide;
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