Pleurothallis adeleae Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl. 1859
Photos by Lourens Grobler ©
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Adele's Pleurothallis [Mrs. D'Alessandro, codiscoverer of species current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Loja, Azuay, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Cochabamba department of Bolivia as a large sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose terrestrial at elevations of 1450 to 2250 meters with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single apical, erect, rigidly coriaceous, elliptical oblong, acute, shortly acuminate, deeply cordate, sessile leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of 1 to 5, arising through a spathe at the leaf base, simultaneous single flowers with a tubular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Several large, showy flowers similar to those of P ruberrima but larger and fleshier are also borne simultaneously by long, drooping pedicels." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia adeleae (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos adeleae ( Luer ) Szlach. & Margonska 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia adeleae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia adeleae drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as P sadelae photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide;
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