Pleurothallis fugax Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Fugaceous Pleurothallis [refers to the short-lived Flower]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on arching, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, fascile of weak, filiform, pendent, .6 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] long, sucessively single, few flowered inflorescence with thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, ephemeral flowers.
"The delicate, pale green flowers are dotted with rose. The lip is transversely reniform witha small, conical callus at the base." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia fugax (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia fugax;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as P aff fugax photo fide
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