Pleurothallis cremasta Luer & J.Portilla 2001 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The ? Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with pendant ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, inflated, imbricating, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, pendant, elliptical, acute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on a pendant, 1.6" [4 cm] long, few to 7, simultaneously flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus.

Checked type W3Tropicos OK

Synonyms Acianthera cremasta (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodoson 2003 phot ook

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