Pleurothallis erebatensis Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1993 SUBGENUS Unguella
Photo by © Gustavo Romero
TYPE Drawing by © Carnevali & G.A.Romero
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Erebata Pleurothallis [town in Bolivar Venezuela where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bolivar and Tachira states of Venezuela, Guyana and Morona-Santiago provonce of Ecuador at elevations around 100 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose to shortly repent epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter through earlier summer on a congested, arising through a spathe at the leaf base erect, to .4" [1 cm] long including the .04 to .2" [1 to 5 mm] long peduncle, few flowered inflorescence with longer to as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
Similar to P aphthosa but differs in the small plant, and flower, a conspicuously carrinate dorsally sepals that are papillose woithout and glabrous withhin, instead of pubescent without and verruculose within, the synsepal connate almost to the apex and a narrower labellum.
CAUTION!!! Luer combined P nanella, P barthelemy and P purpurascens into P erebatensis, I have split them apart as the plants and flowers really are quite different. For that reason Luer's drawing is not a very good match to the photo by Romero who described the species so I suspect that the photo is correct!
Synonyms Acianthera erebatensis (Carnevali & G.A.Romero) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Novon 3: 18 Carnevali & G.A.Romero 1993 DRAWING FIDE;
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 Acianthera erebatensis;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera erebatensis photo fide
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