Myoxanthus seidelii (Pabst) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photo by The Orchidees du Nord Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Seidel's Myoxanthus [Brazilian Collector of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in virgin forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an ascending to erect, stout ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 7 hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, fascile of single, successive flowered inflorescence at the apex of the ramicaul and has minutely pubescent floral bracts.
Very similar to and often cited as a synonym of M lonchophyllus but differs in having raised dark purple spots on the inner surface of the sepals and petals and a bulbous apex to the lip. The tip is suborbicular with revolute margins above the middle with a minutely spiculate-verrucose surface. M lonchophyllus has glabrous sepals and the apex of the lip is convex and not bulbous thickened. !!!CAUTION!!! Most likely this spceies is a synonym of Myoxanthus punctatus (Barb. Rodr.) Luer 1982
Synonyms *Pleurothallis seidelii Pabst 1975
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P seidelii drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 as a synonym of M lonchophyllus; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Systematics of Trichosalpinx Luer 1997 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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