Pleurothallis epiglottis Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by © Philip Wojtas and his Flicker Orchid Photo Site
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY
AGAIN 
Common Name The Epiglottis Pleurothallis [refers to the erect glenion of the labellum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile, cordate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall as well as in the spring on a .1 to .15" [2 to 3 mm] long, arising through a spathe, successive, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the epdicel floral bract.
"Distinguished from others by the broad, denticulate petals and a distinctive lip with erect, rounded sides, a transverse, apiculate apex and a thick, erect callus at the base that resembles an epiglottis." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia epiglottis (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos epiglottis (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurthallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia epiglottis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia epiglottis drawing fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
