Pleurothallis cutucuensis Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Photos by © Ahmed Fayaz and The Grapheus Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Cutacu' Pleurothallis [A mountain range within Morona-Santiago Ecuador]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, sklightly acuminate, deepl cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a resting and arising and concealed by a spathe at the base of the leaf, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long as to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
The long stemmed, deeply cordate, ovate leaf is standard for the section, however a combination of several features separates this species from others. The elliptical, deep, wine red dorsal sepal is 5 veined and the similarly shaped synsepal is white, suffused with rose. The subulate, glabrous petals are deep winr red and widely spread. The oblong lip is basically white but generously dotted with deep red cells.
Synonyms Acronia cutucuensis (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos cutucuensis (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3(3,4): 284. Luer 1977 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cutucuensis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cutucuensis drawing fide;
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