Pleurothallis glochis Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Arrow Point Pleurothallis [refers to the shape of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nariño departemnt of Colombia and Loja province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2700 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, terete ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 basal ones, and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, broadly cuneate below into the rounded, sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter spring and summer on erect,arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, a fascile of erect, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long-pedunculate, successively single, flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Characterized by small, ovate leaves with slender stems carrying long-peduculate, yellow flowers. The petals are broadly ovate and pubescent and the lateral lobes of the arrow-head-shaped lip curve up and around the footless column." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia glochis (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 Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia glochis
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