Pleurothallis altimonile Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The High Collar Pleurothallis [refers to the elongate, erect spathe]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2750 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender to stout ramicauls enveloped by a spotted, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, horizontal to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly cordate-ovate, acute, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a fascile of several successively single flowered inflorescence mostly concealed by an erect, foliaceous spathe.
"Distinguished by the large, erect spathe at the base of a horizontal, deeply cordate leaf. The large flower barely emerges from the spathe. The 5 veined dorsal sepal and nearly equal synsepal are ovate and acute, the petals are narrowly linear and the lip is long and oblong with recurved sides." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia altimonile (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos altimonile (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol XIV No 2 [120] Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia altimonile;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia altimonile Drawing fide
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