Pleurothallis fossulata Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Leaf and Flower in situ Valle de Cauca 1900 meters
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar and The Epidendra Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Little Ditch Pleurothallis [refers to the cavity at the base of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia, Valle de Cauca and Huila departments of Colombia and Carchi and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador on roadbanks and in wet forests at elevations of 1420 to 3100 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile, arising through and concealed by a spathe, of successive single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Variable in the width of the leaves and in the number [3 to 7] of veins in the dorsal sepal. The lip is diagnistic and is oblong-ovate and rounded and convex above the middle and somewhat concave across the middle so that the lateral profile resembles a camel. The base is truncate witha glenion in a sulcus between a pair of more or less triangular calli with cavities on either side." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia fossulata (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos fossulata (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 21 #1 Luer & Escobar 1998 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia fossulata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia fossulata drawing fide;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photos good
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