Pleurothallis baudoensis Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Mark Wilson and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Baudo Pleurothallis [A town In the Choco' of Colombia]
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Choco' and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations of 50 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaous, spreading, ovate, acute, cordate and sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successive single flowers arising through a spathe and concealed within and has a thin tubular, just shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P phyllocardioides but P baudoensis is distinguished by the thicker sepals, oblong, fleshy, subcarinate petals and a thick, triangular lip with a proportionally large glenion." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia baudoensis (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos baudoensis (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia Vol. 21 No 1 Luer & Escobar 1998 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia baudoensis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia baudoensis drawing fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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