Myoxanthus parvilabius (C.Schweinf.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Scandentia Luer 1992
Photo by © Werkhoven
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
LATER 
THROUGH MID
Common Name The Small Lip Myoxanthus
Flower Size .2" [.5 cm]
Found in Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 780 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a scandent, almost shrublike masses of branching stems as a stout, erect, prolific [to 8 arising from one] ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 8, tubular, shortly hispid sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer through mid winter on a congested fascile of .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with hispid, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and 1 to 3 simulataneously opening flowers at any one time.
"Grows into great, shrub-like masses of intertwining and branching stems very similar to Myoxanthus frutex but is characterized by the rosy-tan flowers with subulate petals ad a proportionally small, thick lip witha broadly rounded, denticulate apex." Luer 11992
Synonyms *Pleurothallis parvilabia C.Schweinf. 1962
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; 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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