Pleurothallis acutilabia Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Acute Lip Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Choco' department of Colombia at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls with a tight fitting tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a resting on the leaf, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, .16" [4 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence.

"This species is intermediate between Section Acroniae and Macrophyllae-fasciculatae but the short peduncle and pedicel place it better within Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae. Characterized by the slender ramicauls, spreading, narrowly ovate leaves, successive flowers with a concave, obtuse dorsal sepal and synsepal; elliptical petals nearly as large and a triangular lip with an acute apex." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia acutilabia (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos acutilabius (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquideologia 21 #2 116 Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia acutilabia

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia acutilabia drawing fide;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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