Pleurothallis chamelopoda Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Creeping Foot Pleurothallis [refers to the long repent rhizome]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations of 200 to 400 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, long-repent epiphyte with ascending-erect, slender, sharply winged towards the apex ramicauls with a thin, tubular sheath above the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, suberect, ellitpical, subacute, sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a reclining, arising through a spathe at the base of the sessile leaf, in a fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorecence with just short of the ovary floral bract.
"Distinct vegetatively by the slender, long-repent rhizome with slender, ascending ramicauls that bear a much shorter elliptical leaf. Although narrow the ramicaul is triquetrous towards the leaf. The inflorescnce consists of a fascile of single flowered peduncles borne from the base of the ssssile leaf. The flower, not unlike P lanceana and its relatives is small and membraneous." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera chamelopoda (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia 20: 201 Luer 1996 drawing/photo 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 chamelopoda
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