Pleurothallis fossulata Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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 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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