Pleurothallis lynniana [Luer] Comb. novo. Pfahl 2012 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Leaf and Flower Photo by © Ruud de Block
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Lynn's Pleurothallis [O'Shaughnessy - American Pleurotallis enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador without collection data as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul with a loose sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 short sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, more or less horizontal, coriaceous, narrowly ovate with revolute sides, acute, deeply cordate into the sessile base leaf and blooms in the winter on a short, arising at the base of the leaf, through a reclining, conduplicate spathe, peduncle and floral bracts concealed within, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Related to P cardiostola but distinct by the brightly colored, large, yellow sepals prominently striped in red and the thickly and bluntly triangular lip is shallowly concave within thickened margins." Luer 2006
Synonyms *Acronia lynniana Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Acronia lynniana
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Acronia lynniana drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 #9 2007 as Acronia lynniana photo fide;
* Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl., Nomencl. Note 3a: 1 Pfahl 2012;
Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #3 2017 photo fide;
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