Pleurothallis bulbosa [Luer & Escobar] Pfahl 2012 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPEDrawing by © Carl Luer.
Common Name The Bulbous Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia on the western Cordillera at elevations around 2050 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicaul with a tubular sheath below and 2 others at the base carrying a spreasing, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, sessile, cordate leaf that blooms in the spring on a .1 to .15" [2 to 3 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising and confined within a reclining spathe with tubular as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished from P bivalvis by the long, narrowly linear-ovate leaveds and a convex hemispherical lip." Luer 1005
Synonyms Acronia bulbosa Luer & R.Escobar 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia bulbosa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Syatematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia bulbosa drawing fide;
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