Pleurothallis habenula Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo by © Orquideologia Revista, Orquideas Interesantes del Alto de Putumayo
Photo by © The Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Thong Pleurothallis [refers to blade of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 to 3100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a close fitting tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect to more or less spreading, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on erect, slender, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, a fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by a fascile of single, long-pedunculate flowers. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are similarily ovate, the petals are large, triangular, acute and pubescent and the blade of the lip is long=ligulate distal to an acutely deflexed, basal claw." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia habenula (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 14(2): 153. Luer & Escobar 1981 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia habenula ;
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