Pleurothallis canaligera Rchb.f 1877 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Groove Carrying Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Antioquia, Risaralda, Tolima and Nariño departments of Colombia, Succumbios, Napo, Tunguruhua, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Amazonas and Cajamarca departments of Peru at elevations of 1200 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte and terrestrial with an erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, patent to erect-patent, fleshy-coriaceous, ovate lanceolate to narrowly ovate, obtusely acuminate, shortly cordate below leaf that can bloom at any time of the year on a fasciculate, short to .32" [8mm], single flowered inflorescence with an elliptic-cucullate, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Characterized by the small to medium sized habit and a dense fascile of small flowers, often old and in bud, arsiing from the base of a thickly coriaceous, more or less horizontal, cordate leaf as well as the sepals and petals are fleshy and externally verrucose and the concave synsepal is filled with a fleshy, ovate, concave, cellular-papillose lip.
Synonyms Acronia canaligera (Rchb. f.) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis scaphioglottis Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis syringifolia Kraenzl. 1916; Zosterophyllanthos canaliger (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P scaphioglottis;
Selbyana 1: 232 Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia canaligera
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia canaligera drawing fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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