Myoxanthus lonchophyllus (Barb. Rodr.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antenella Luer 1992
Photos by Americo Docha Neto
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Lance-Leafed Myoxanthus
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Mantiqueira Rain Forest Mountains of Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect to ascending, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 7 tubular, hispidulous sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-ovate, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the subpetiolate base and blooms at most any time of the year on a fascile of single, successive flowers arising at the apex of the mature ramicaul and the base of the leaf and has pubescent, longer to as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the shortly repent habit, leaves about as long as the ramicaul, a single flower, very slender petals minimally swollen at the apex, and a thick, bicrested lip with the apex narrowly rounded with the fringed margins revolute." Luer 1992
Synonyms Chaetocephala lonchophylla (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr. 1882; Dubois-reymondia lonchophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Brieger 1977; Humboldtia warmingii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia warmingii (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis lonchophylla (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis warmingii Rchb. f. 1881: *Restrepia lonchophylla Barb. Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Pleurothallis warmingii; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 as Pleurothallis lonchophyllus drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as SChaetocephala lonchophylla drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Chaetocephala lonchophylla; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Pleurothallis warmingii drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 Drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 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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