Pleurothallis deflexa Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Alexander Reynolds and INVENTORY OF THE VASCULAR PLANTS OF MAQUIPUCUNA, ECUADOR Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by Andreas Philipp
Photos by Patricia Harding
Plant and Flower in situ Costa Rica
Photo by Wilfried Löderbusch
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bent Backward Pleurothallis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 600 to 3000 meters as a terrestrial or an small sized, warm to cold growing, highly variable caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and carries a single, apical, cordate, acute leaf and blooms in the winter on a very short, successively flowered inflorescence carrying a single flower with a thin, tubular, as long as to slightly longer than the pedicel floral bract holding the flower close to the leaf base.
Similar to P grandiflora but has much smaller flowers [about 1/4 the size] and have a three veined dorsal sepal, petals that lie more or less parrelllel to the lip and the sides of the lip pare deflexed above the middle as the apex humps up.
P deflexa is similar to P siphoglossa, P adonis, P linguifera, P millei, P grandiflora and P sarcochila in the large sized flowers.
Synonyms Acronia deflexa (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos deflexus (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Selbyana 1: 178 Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo not = P siphoglossa;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P siphoglossa;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo ok;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide 1st photo;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia deflexa
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