Pleurothallis callifera C.Schweinf. 1951 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Callus Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela on the top of Ptari-tepui at elevations of 2100 to 2285 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect to horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute, shallowly cordate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a peduncle arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence.

"Only known from the type collection and distinguished by the ovate-triangular, more or less conduplicate lip with a prominent, subpyrimidal callus at the base that bears a medium sized glenion." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia callifera (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos callifer (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing good;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia callifera

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia callifera drawing fide;

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