Pleurothallis cordatifolia Dod 1976 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986 >
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by Donald Dod and Moscosoa 3: 54 Dod 1978
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Common Name The Cordate Leaved Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Dominican Republic at elevations of 850 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, terete, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, aubacute to obtuse, rounded to shallowly cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a short, arising and concealed by a spathe envelopeing the stout, thick, .04 to .06" [1 to 1.5 mm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P miguelii in the Dominican Republic but it has subcordiform leaves that are 2.4 long by 1.2" wide [6 x 3 cm] The inflorescnce is racemose, multiflowered and longer thant he leaf. Outside of the country it is similar ti P casapensis but it is 7.2" tall, the inflorescence is racemose and multiflowered. The flowers are similar but the lateeral sepals of P casapensis are connate only 2/3's their length." Donald Dod 1978
Synonyms Acianthera cordatifolia (Dod) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Moscosoa 1: #1:54 Dod 1976 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:243 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera cordatifolia;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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