Pleurothallis cedrinorum Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
TYPE Drawings by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Cedars Pleurothallis [refers to Los Cedros, a nature reserve within Ecuador]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Imbabura, Carchi, Esmeraldas, Pichincha and Napo provinces of northern Ecuador at elevations of 800 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath in the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, rounded to subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a reclining, arising and completely enveloped by a spathe, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Vegetatively the species is large but not distinctive. The flowers are relatively large with multiveined sepals, the one veined petals are subfalcate and entire and the reclining lip is elliptical, obtuse, slightly convex, microscopically cellular-glandular and with a glenion at the base between calli similar to P fossulata
Synonyms Acronia cedrinorum (Luer & Dalström) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis embreei Luer & Hirtz 2003; Zosterophyllanthos cedrinorum (Luer & Dalström) Szlach. & Kulak 2006; Zosterophyllanthos embreei (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 152 Luer & Dalstrom 1996 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 22 #3 2003 as P embreei drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cedrinorum
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cedrinorum drawing fide;
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