Pleurothallis hammelii Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Hammel's Pleurothallis [American Botanist at Missouri Botanical Garden current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Panama province of Panama at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect to suberect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 1.2" [3 cm] long including the .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long peduncle, loosely and simultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carries waxy yellow flowers.
"The species is distinguished by the ramicaul shorter than the elliptical leaf, a short simultaneously few flowered raceme, the dorsal, synsepal and petals are ovate, acute, more or less similar and an ovate lip with a broad, angled, truncate base." Luer 1997
Synonyms Acronia hammelii (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 12:48 Luer 1997 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia hammelii
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