Pleurothallis drewii Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Drew's Pleurothallis [American Collector of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, otuse, shortly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 6" [15 cm] long including the 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long peduncle, loosely subsecund, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with an oblique, acute, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"One of the largest of the subgenus, the leaves are broadly obovate and shortly acuminate witha loose, long-pedicellate raceme about as long. The dorsal sepal is concave and broader than the equally long synsepal. The petals are narrowly ovate and acute. The lip is ovate and concave with erect, rounded sides below the middle. The base of the lip is concave to accomodate a bulbous, pubecent, colum foot." Luer 2000
Synonyms Acronia drewii (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia drewii
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