Pleurothallis dibolia Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Double-Edged Lance Pleurothallis
Flower Size .15" [3mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramcauls with a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, with the sides more or less revolute, and narrows abruptly to the sessile, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascile of successive, single flowered inflorecence subtended by a spathe concealing the peduncle within and has a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Differs in it's erect, tall, slender ramcauls with erect, narrowly ovate, cordate leaves and carrying yellow acute, glabrous petals, sepals and synsepal and have a broadly cordate lip with a pair of basal calli flanking the glenion.
Synonyms Acronia dibolia (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos dibolia (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1(3): 238, f. 54. Luer 1975 Drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 225 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia dibolia
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia dibolia drawing fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
