Pleurothallis ariana-dayanae Vélez-Abarca, M.M.Jiménez & D.Gut.del Pozo 2022 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
LCDP by © Vélez-Abarca, photos by M.M.Jiménez/TYPE Drawing by Vélez-Abarca
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Common Name Ariana-Dayana's Pleurothallis [Combination of the names of the first author’s daughters Nathasha Ariana and Dayana Mishell current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador in shady dwarf forests of a sandstone plateau on the Cordillera del Cóndor at elevations around 980 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with yellowish-green, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 others at the base, and carrying a single, apical, horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, margin slightly involute, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a fascicle, arising through and concealed within a spathe, of single, successive, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Similar species are P. paquishae and P applanata and P scabrilinguis
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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