Pleurothallis dracontea Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Dracontia SECTION Dracontia Luer 1986
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Dragon-Like Pleurothallis [refers to the hairy gaping flowers with a warty upturned tongue]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Herida province of Costa Rica at elevations around 2000 to 2100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by a, thin, tubular sheath and 2 shorter sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute to subacute, sessile, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, arising through a slender spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, slender, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, distantly, successively 1 to 3, several flowered inflorescence with somewhat shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Related to P pachyglossa but is distimguished by the log-pubescent interior , by the petals with a long-tuberculate exterior and bicarinte interior ans by a small, verrucose lip with a narrow upturned apex." Luer 1981
Synonyms Dracontia dracontea (Luer) Luer 2004; Dracontia perennis (Luer) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis perennis Luer 1996; Stelis dracontea (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Stelis perennis (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49(3): 204 Luer 1981;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Lindleyana 11(2): 86, f. 22. Luer 1996 as P perennis Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 as P perennis drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:262 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis dracontea;
Lindleyana 16(4): 267 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis perennis;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as P perennis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Dracontia dracontea;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004as Dracontia perennis;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 as Dracontia dracontea photo fide;
Systematic Botany, 38(2): pp. 307–315 A Note on Genus Dracontia (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), with a New Species Adam P. Karremans and Chris Smith-Martin 2012 as Dracontia dracontea drawing/photo fide;
Systematic Botany, 38(2): pp. 307–315 A Note on Genus Dracontia (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), with a New Species Adam P. Karremans and Chris Smith-Martin 2012 as Dracontia perrinis as syn of P dracontea drawing/photo fide;
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