Pleurothallis aurita Schweinf 1940 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by C Schweinfurth
Common Name The Long-Eared Pleurothallis
Flower Size .24" [.6 cm] long
Found in San Jose province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1100 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath on the lower half and another 1 to 2 basal sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, thickly coriaceous, rigid, elliptical, acute, cuneate below intot he sessile abse leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with which it is concealed and has thin, tubular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
Found in Costa Rica on small roadside fence trees at an elevation of 1500 to 1700 meters in the Arenal Volcano area. It flowered for a few days in August and it has an outward appearance vegetatively of a Lepanthes yet the leaf is more folded [cordate]. Actual flower size is approx 1/4" [.6 cm] long, and occurs on an apical, short, single flowered inflorescence. Similar to P excavata and P dorothaea.
Synonyms Acronia aurita (C. Schweinf.) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos auritus (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 8(2): 39 C. Schweinf. 1940 Drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia aurita
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia aurita drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo fide;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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