Pleurothallis alopex Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Mark Wilson and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Fox Pleurothallis [to Honor Fred Fuchs, American who first collected this species 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Bolivia and Alto Parana department of Paraguay at elevations of 750 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, ascending, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 at the base carrying a single, apical, horizontal to acutely deflexed, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the spring at the base of the leaf, just barely arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe, .04 to .08" " [1 to 2mm], successively single, few flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Characterized by the similar-perpendicular leaves and a conspicuous, erect, spathe. A smaller, deep purple, resupinate flower faces downward with the synsepal and lip foremost. Otherwise the floral parts are similar to those of the complex." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia alopex (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos alopex (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Selbyana 3: 46 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 photo/drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia alopex;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia alopex Drawing fide;
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