Pleurothallis adelphe Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl. 1859
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Sister Pleurothallis [refers to the close relationship with Pleurothallis cardiostola]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect, ramicaul with a close, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, more of less concave, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a reclining, arising through a suberect to recling spathe, in a dense fascile of successively numerous, .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with tubular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex and very similar to Pleurothallis cardiostola but P adelphe has longer leaves, a small, sometimes prostrate spathe, and the small brown, fleshy flowers with narrow, entire, one veined petals. The lip which is smaller than in P cardiostola has a distinct, circular, central cavity.
Synonyms Acronia adelphe (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis perforata Luer & Hirtz 1996; Zosterophyllanthos adelphe (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 142 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia adelphe
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia adelphe drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as P perforata drawing fide;
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