Pleurothallis ganymedes Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Ganymedes Pleurothallis [Mythological cup bearer of the gods]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations above 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramcauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3, others at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, dark green, rigidly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acumiante, acute, sessile and deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a short, arising and concealed within the spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with athin, tubular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the large purple flower borne on top od f a large, narrolwy ovate leaf. The erect dorsal sepal is broad, the synsepal is deeply concave, the spreading petals are triangular and acute and the lip is suborbicular." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia ganymedes (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos ganymedes (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
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 Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ganymedes
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ganymedes drawing fide
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