Pleurothallis deuterowerneri J.M.H.Shaw 2016
SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Photos by © Wiel Driessen and his Facebook page
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Werner's Pleurothallis [German collector of the type current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erct ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, flexuous, flexible, peduncle filiform, .4" [1 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying transluscent purple to pale yellow flowers.
Synonyms Acronia werneri Luer & Thoerle 2011; Pleurothallis werneri (Luer & Thoerle) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 nom. illeg.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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