Myoxanthus pulvinatus (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 1992 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Myoxanthus Luer 1992
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Cushion Shaped Myoxanthus
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations around 670 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of simultaneous single flowers arising at the apex of the ramicaul and has inflated, sparsely pubescent-spiculate, as long as just short of the length of the pedicel floral bracts.
"The habit and flower of M. pulvinatus is similar to Myoxanthus congestus but mainly distinguished by its column apex frequently bidentate on both sides and generally apiculate lip vs. with an acute tooth on both sides and apex acute to obtuse." Gustavo Rojas-Alvarado, Mario A. Blanco, A. P. Karremans 2021
Synonyms *Anathallis pulvinata Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis pulvinata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Pleurothallis pulvinatus drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 as Pleurothallis pulvinatus 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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