Pleurothallis chrysantha Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
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Another Closeup? - notice cupped blunt petals
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Drawings by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Golden Yellow Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" long [5mm]
Oaxaca Mx., 2103m elev., First crest on Puerto Escondido rd, epiphytic on oaks, common
Found in Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico and Oaxaca states of Mexico on sea-ward facing slopes or in humid sub-deciduous forests at elevations of 1500 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caepitose to shortly repent epiphyte with stiff, erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, thick, rigid, sessile, oblong, obtuse apically and below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a apical, arising through a narrow spathe, short, stiff, erect, fasciculate, 1" [2.5 cm] long, few [4 to 5] flowered inflorescence with thin, infundibular, just shorter to just longer than the ovary floral bracts and holding the flowers close to the base of the leaf.
"Closely allied with P circumplexa differing mainly in the lack of decurrance of the margins of the leaf on the wings or the ramicaul. A short raceme of yellowish flowers is borne at the base of the leaf. As in P circumplexa the petals are minutely serrate and the lip is thick with erect, broadly rounded margins below the middle.
Synonyms Acianthera chrysantha (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia chrysantha (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia chrysantha (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis aurea A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pleurothallis hartwegiifolia H.Wendl. & Kraenzl 1900
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 drawing;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera chrysantha;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 503 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Acianthera chrysantha drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Acianthera chrysantha;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera hartwegifolia photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera chrysantha photo fide
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