Pleurothallis bitumida Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Pupulin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Two Swelling Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Heridia provinc eof Costa Rica at elevations of 500 to 720 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath in the lower fourth and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coricaeous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of short, successive, single flowered inflorescence arising througha spathe and carrying non-resupinate flowers with thin, infundibular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Related to P excavata with both characterized by elliptical, sessile leaves and superficially similar flowers except for the small habit and small size of the flower of P bitumida. P bitumida is distinguished by the triangular, concave lip with suberect basal angles and a pair of calli at the base of the disc of the lip. P excavata has the lip more deeply concave with erect, auriculate lobes at the baseal angles." Luer 2005.
Synonyms Acronia bitumida (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11(2): 70. Luer 1996 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 2005 as Acronia bitumida;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia bitumida drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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