Myoxanthus punctatus (Barb. Rodr.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Little Spotted Myoxanthus
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Brazil at elevations around 670 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect to ascending, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 7 tubular, hispidous sheaths and carries a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-ovate, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the subpetiolate base that blooms in the spring on a fascile of single, successive flowers arising at the apex of the ramicaul with slightly pubescent peduncles and as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the repent habit, leaves somewhat longer than the ramicaul, very slender petals swollen at the apex, and a thick, verrucose lip with revolute margins." Carl Luer 1992
Synonyms *Chaetocephala punctata Barb. Rodr.1882; Dubois-reymondia punctata (Barb.Rodr.) Brieger 1977; Pleurothallis chaetocephala Cogn. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as as Chaetocephala punctata drawwing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Chaetocephala punctata; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Chaetocephala punctata drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as Pleurothallis chaetocephala drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 2 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo; 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; 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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