Pleurothallis henrici Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Henric's Pleurothallis [German Heinrich von Eggers collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Manabi, Esmeraldas and Los rios provinces of Ecuador in littoral forests at elevations around sealevel to 100 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing, shortly repent epiphyte with erect, slender, terete ramicauls with a close fitting sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a loose, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, distichous, 1.8 to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long including the .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with as long as the ovary floral bracts with an apiculum.
"Very similar to P verrucuna but it has an acute, retrorse, marginal lobe s of the lip. Both species have thick, acute, elliptical leavesw and a short lax raceme. Both grow more or less pendent because of the weight of the leaves." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera henrici (Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 58 Schlechter 1921;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 234 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Acianthera henrici;
Phytotaxa 490 (2) Zambrano & Solano 2021 as Acianthera henrici
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