Myoxanthus ephelis (Luer) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antenella Luer 1992
Photo by © Eerika Schulz and her Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Freckled Myoxanthus [refers to the lightly red flecked flowers]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6 reddish purple, hispid sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile of .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] successively single flowered inflorescence with 1 to 3, simultaneous flowers, arising at the apex of the ramicaul with red pubescent, alomost to as long as the ovary f floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the medium size, the caesiptose habit, a fascile of a few, red flecked flowers with blunt, ovate sepals and subulate petals and a three lobed lip with large, luneate lateral lobes and a pair of central lamellae sepalrated medially by a channel." Luer 1992
Synonyms *Pleurothallis ephelis Luer 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Selbyana 1(4): 416, f. 99. 1976 as Pleurothallis ephelis drawing fide; *Selbyana 7(1): 43. (Luer) Luer 1982 Myoxanthus ephelis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 Drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Myoxanthus sp nov. Colombia SVU Pg 200 bottom right photo fide; A taxonomic synopsis and morphological characterization of Myoxanthus (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) Gustavo Rojas-Alvarado, Mario A. Blanco, A. P. Karremans 2021 Photo fide
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