Pleurothallis carinata C.Schweinf. 1951 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Carinate Pleurothallis [refers to the carinate petals]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cuzco department of Peru at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, shortly repent epiphyte with stout, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apcial, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a loose, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 1" [2.5 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Characterized by stout ramicauls produced from a stout creeping rhizome and bearing a thickly coriaceous, elliptical, sessile leaf. One to three flowers are produced in a short raceme. The sepals and petals are acute and the petals bear of smooth carina on the middle third, reminiscent of the pair of serrated calli on the petals of P quadriserrata The lip is acutely lobed on the lower third, while a pair of smooth calli are present on the middle third." Luer 2004

Synonyms Acianthera carinata (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 15: 85 Schweinfurth 1951

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera aand Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera aand Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 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 carinata;

Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera carinata

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