Pleurothallis archicolonae Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
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Common Name or Meaning The Head Colony Pleurothallis [refers to Cerro Jefe where the species was collected]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Chiriqui province of Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear-elliptic, acute, sessile, narrowly cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on short, erect-arching, arising through a spathe, fascile of 1 to laxly 2 flowered, .4 to .52" [1 to 1.3 cm] long inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P annectans but the new species is easily distinguished by the linear leaves instead of narrowly elliptic leaves. The flowers are usually produced single, but occasionally a second is produced ina loosely 2 flowered raceme. The dorsal sepal and similar synsepal are yellow, striped or mottled in red, concave and shortly acuminate. The petals are sigmoid. The lip is broadly trilobed with the rounded basal lobes erect and the apex obtuse." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia archicolonae (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3(1-2): 52-54, f. 129. Luer 1976 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia archicolonae
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