Pleurothallis exdrasii Luer & Toscano 2002 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer & Toscano and Selbyana 23[2] Toscano & Luer 2002

EARLY

Common Name Exdras' Pleurothallis [Named in honor of Exdras Porto, Brazilian, who had this species in cultivation current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil at elevations around 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, slightly compressed above ramicauls enveloped by spotted tubular sheaths below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, subacute, narrowly rounded blelow into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle 1.2" [3 cm] long, rachis 2.8 to 3.2" [7 t o8 cm] long, congested, distichous, simutaneously several fowered inforescence with tubular, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"This species of subgenus Acianthera is most similar to Pleurothallis bicarinata and apparently endemic in the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is characterized by the large habit with stout ramicauls longer than the thick, oblong leaf. The raceme of fleshy flowers is longer than the leaf and subtended by an inconspicuous spathe. The sepals are short-pubescent externally and glabrous within. The petals are broadly spathulate and single-veined. The lip is thick, broadly subpandurate-subtrilobed and subtruncate with diverging calli." Luer & Toscano 2002

Synonyms Acianthera exdrasii (Luer & Toscano) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 23[2] Toscano & Luer 2002 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 exdrasii

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