Pleurothallis bissei Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles
Common Name Bisse's Pleurothallis [Original Collector of species current]
Flower Size .05" [1 mm]
Found in Holguin province of Cuba in gallery forests, open places like the banks of rivulets on serpentine rocks at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing, shortly repent lithophyte with erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped by 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, naroowly elliptic, acute to subobtuse, often tridentate, yellowish green and uneven above, dark green and glabrous beneath, minutely serrate margin, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on to 2, arising through a conduplicate spathe, terminal, ascending, .16" [4mm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with infundibular, just shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Closely allied with P hirsutula from Jamaica but P bissei is much smaller in stature and has much more orbicular leaves and the inflorescence is almost as long as the leaf.
Synonyms Acianthera bissei (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 Acianthera bissei;
Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004drawing fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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