Pleurothallis fernandezii [Luer] comb. novo. Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Drawing by © Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Fernandez' Pleurothallis [Peruvian curator of USM Herbarium in Lima Peru current]

Flower Size .04" [5 mm]

Found in Loreto department of Peru in wet premontane forests at elevations around 104 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, shortly repent epiphyte with a slender, repent rhizome giving rise to slender, ascending-erect, terete ramicauls enveloped below by 1 to 2 sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, contracted below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a suberect, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, .32 to .4" [.8 to 1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish white, intenely spotted with purple, glabrous flowers.

"Distinguished by the repent rhizome and slender ramicauls with equally long, very narrowly ovate leaves. The purple spotted flowes are produced simultaneously in a two flowered raceme borne by a short peduncle. The dorsal sepal is narrowly triangular and the lateral sepals are semiconnate. The petals are oblong and acute with microscopically irregular margins. The lip is thick with a pair of subverrucose calli on the middle third: the apex is rounded and the retrorse lateral lobes are on the lower third." Luer 2011

Synonyms *Acianthera fernandezii Luer, Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 313 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 16(2): 313 Luer 2011 as Acianthera fernandezii Drawing fide;

Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera fernandezi;

* Internet Orchid Spcies Photo Encyclopedia Nomenclature Notes 12/2013 #2 Pfahl 2013

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