Pleurothallis aberrans Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Aberrentia Luer 2004
Photo and drawing by © Bogarin
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Aberrant Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in primary forests at elevations around sea level to 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls carrying a single, apical, eret, ovate, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a reclining, arising through a spathe, compact, distichous, racemose, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, rachis .2 to 3.6" [.5 to 9 cm] long, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Characterized by a few flowered raceme of green flowers brone above the base of the more or less spreading leaf. The base of the leaf is abrupptly contracted into a narrowly winged ramicaul. The dorsal sepal is erect and fleshy above the middle, the petals are obcuneate with the truncated apex lobulate and the lip is long-ungiculate with the claw and the column foot within a conical mentum formed by the floor of the synsepal. The petals and lip are foreign to the subgenus Acianthera" Luer 2004
Synonyms Aberrantia aberrans (Luer) Luer 2005; Acianthera aberrans (Luer) Pupulin & Bogarín 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 2(4): 382 Luer 1978;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 drawing ok but does not show winged column but makes mention in the description;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Aberantia aberrans;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Aberantia aberrans;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Lankesteriana 8(2): 53 Pupulin & Bogarin 2008 as Acianthera aberrans drawing fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera aberrans photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Acianthera aberrans photo fide
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