Pleurothallis grobleri (Luer & Hirtz) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia grobleri by © Carl Luer and Selbyana 30: 29 Luer & Escobar 2009

Common Name Grobler's Pleurothallis [South African orchidist and Orchid Vendor and Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with ascending to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, broadly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of suberect, arising through a prostrate spathe, peduncle .4 to .6" [1 tp 1.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"This species is closely related to Pleurothallis bucranon , both species occurring in northwestern Ecuador. Similar in habit with slender ramicauls, the ovate leaves of the latter are not shallowly cordate at the base, and the peduncles are longer and suberect. The sepals are narrowly ovate and concave; the petals are narrowly linear and subsigmoid; and the basal lobes of a non-deflexed lip are rounded instead of uncinate." Luer & Hirtz 2009

Synonyms *Acronia grobleri Luer & Hirtz 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Selbyana 30: 3 Luer & Escobar 2009 as Acronia grobleri Drawing fide;

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