Pleurothallis chavezii Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Franco Pupulin and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 26, No. 1 2021, The Researchgate Website
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Chavez's Pleurothallis [Costa Rican Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Guanacaste province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1100 meters as a medium sized, cool 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, suberect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, sessile and deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of ascending, short, subtended and enveloped by a spathe, peduncle .04 to .12" [1 to 3 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The flowers are of average size for the section with a boadly elliptical, concave, three veined dorsal sepals ad long as the narrow acute synsepal. The petals are narrowly elliptial, acute and minutely denticulate at the base. The lip is narrowly pandurate, acute apically , narrowed above the dilated base. The basall fourth is filled witha shallow, circular cavity." Luer 1996
Synonyms Acronia chavezii (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos chavezii (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 72. Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia chavezii;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia chavezii drawing fide;
Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 26, No. 1 2021, The Researchgate Website photo fide;
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