Echinosepala tomentosa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002
Photo by © Adam Karremans
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Hairy Echinosepala
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica without locational data as a miniature sized epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by 3, close tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base leaf that blooms on a fascile of successive single, few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and with pubescent, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Very similar to E aspacensis, E sempergemmata and E uncinata but differs in the much smaller plant and smaller purple-black flowers.
Synonyms Brenesia tomentosa (Luer) Luer 2004; Echinella tomentosa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Myoxanthus tomentosus (Luer) Pupulin & M.A.Blanco 2001; *Pleurothallis tomentosa Luer 1999; Pleurothallis tomentosa Luer 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 as Pleurothallis tomentosa drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 as Pleurothallis echinosepala drawing fide;
Lankesteriana 2: 18 Pupulin & Blanco 2001 as Myoxanthus tomentosa;
Lindleyana 16: 253 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Echinella tomentosa; * Lindleyana 17: 101 Pridgeon & Chase 2002 as Echinosepala tomentosa; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Pleurothallis tomentosa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Brenesia tomentosa; LANKESTERIANA 17(2): Pupulin 2017 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1: 131 Karremans & Viera 2020 Photo fide
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