Pleurothallis herrerae Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Mario Velasquez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Herrera's Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Quetzaltenango province of Guatemala in wet pine-oak forests at elevations around 2100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing, shortly repent to caespitose terrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 tubular sheaths flecked with purple and carrying single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and late fall on a short, arising from the rhizome, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, rachis .6" [1.5 cm] long, loosely 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with infundibular, purple spotted, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"It is closely allied to P. johnsonii, but it is distinguished by the larger, yellow, purple-spotted flowers; acute sepals and petals; and a subpandurate lip with prominent, uncinate, basal lobes. As with P. johnsonii, the flowers are produced in short racemes from the rhizome. The inflorescences are consistently produced from the rhizome, apparently not from the apex of the ramicaul as is sometimes the case in P. johnsonii> Luer 1991
Synonyms Acianthera herrerae (Luer) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003; Brenesia herrerae (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 6(2): 100. Luer 1991 Drawing fide;
Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
Icones Orchidaceaerum Fascile 5 & 6 pg x Solano & Soto Arenas 2003 as Acianthera herrerae;
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 Brenesia herrerae;
Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 as Acianthera herrerae photo fide;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Acianthera herrerae photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Acianthera herrerae;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera herrerae photo fide
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