Pleurothallis erythrium Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Little Red Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia without location and Zamora-Chinchiope, Napo and Pataza provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 600 to 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, closely apressed, thin, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute, basally sessile and cordate that blooms in the spring on a fascile of short, successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe and has a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Often cited as a synonym of P phyllocardioides but distinguished by the larger, red-purple flowers with proportioanlly longer and narrower petals. The flowers are characterized by subacute sepals, narrowly linear-oblong, minutely erose petals and an ovate, obtuse to subacute lip. P phyllocardioides flowers are yellow and no yellow flower has ever been found of P erythrium." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia erythrium [Luer] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos erythrium (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia erythrium
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia erythrium drawing fide
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