Pleurothallis depressa Luer & R. Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pressed Downwards Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers being pressed into the leaf]
Flower Size .6" [1.5cm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 slender, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, broadly cordate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, basally sessile leaf that blooms in the spring on a very short, arising through a reclining spathe, successively single flowered inflorescence and a thin, as long as the pedicel floral bract and with the flower widely spread and apressed to the surface of the leaf.
"The most distinctive feature of this species is the solitary, flat flower lying flat against the surface of the leaf as well as the translucent pale yellow sepals and the proportionately small, shortly pubescent, ovate lip." Luer 1996
Synonyms Acronia depressa (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 2004; Zosterophyllanthos depressa (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak, Richardiana 6: 133 (2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideología 20: 50. Luer & R. Escobar 1996. photo/drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia depressa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia depressa drawing fide;
Lankesteriana 18: 217-230 Wilson, Zhao etal 2018 photo fide
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