Pleurothallis conicostigma Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Photos by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Conical Stigma Pleurothallis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in very wet montane cloud forests as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose terrestrial on road cuts and steep embankments and an epiphyte at elevations of 1250 to 1500 meters with a short rhizome, an elongate, slender, erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and another on the lower third and carrying a single, apical, narrowly cordate, acute leaf and blooms in the late winter through summer with short, arising from a spathe, successive opening single flowers on fasciculcate inflorescence with acute, tubular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and holding the non-resupinate flower close to the leaf base.
"The flowers are similar to P magnipetala but differ in their being non-resupinate, the sepals are broad and obtuse and the petals are comparitively large and acute. The uppermost lip is fleshy, broadly cordate, concave with erect sides below the middle and above the middle a pair of thick, angled elevations courses towards the apex. The short, broad column is similar to those of the section other than the stigmatic lobes are conspicuously pointed or even conical as they protrude from either side of the rostellum." Luer 1975
Synonyms Acronia conicostigma (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos conicostigma (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1(3): 236, f. 53. Luer 1975 Drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 219 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia conicostigma
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia conicostigma drawing fide
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