Pleurothallis consatae Luer & R.Vásquez 1999 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © S. Olortegui and Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Consata Pleurothallis [A community near where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Huanuco department Peru and La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing, shortly repent epiphyte with ascending to erect, stout, more or less compressed and sulcate above ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, bourne at the base of the leaf, distichous, .6" [1.5 cm] long including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a thin minutely pubescent, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Allied to P aphthosa, P hoffmannseggiana and P oligantha. The flowers of P consatae are thickly fleshy, foul-smelling and much smaller than the of P Aphtosa. The lateral sepals are connate near to the tips and the lip differs with a well developed erect, marginal lobe below the middle." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera consatae (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 2: 135 Luer & Vasquez 1999 drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing 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 consatae;
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera consatae
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