Pleurothallis bahorucensis Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Bahoruco Pleurothallis [A mountain of the Dominican Republic]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Dominican Republic at elevations around 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, presumably erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths below the middle and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, minutely crenulate-denticulate margined, narrowly linear-oblong, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an arching to pendent, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, including the slender peduncle ,4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, lax, distichous, flexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has oblique, dilated, acute floral bracts.
"Similar to P pendens but has narrowly oblong leaves that are less than .16" [4 mm] wide. The raceme is shorter and flexuous with the flowers closer set. , the ovaries are twice longer, the basal margins of the blade of the lip are erect, rounded and lobe-like, the carinae of the disc are tall and the column is disporoportionally large." Luer 2000
Synonyms Acianthera bahorucensis (Luer) A.Doucette 2016; Antilla bahorucensis (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 14: 108 Luer 1999 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Antilla bahorucensis;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
Phytotaxa 275: 270 Doucette 2016 as Acianthera bahorucensis
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