Pleurothallis gracilipedunculata Foldats 1968 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo by © Andreas Philipp and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Slender Inflorescence Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Tachira state Venezuela and Norte de Santander department of Colombia at elevations of 2300 to 2650 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on arching-pendent, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, fascile of single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the slender, ramicauls longer than the ovate leaves, The flowers are borne by long, arching, single flowered peduncles arising from the base of the leaf in a fascile. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are concave, the petals are acute and ciliate and the lip is cordate with the basal lobes flanking the column." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia gracilipedunculata (Foldats) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia gracilipedunculata
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