Pleurothallis javieri [Archila] comb novo Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo by © Fredy Archila and The Epidendra Website

Drawing of Acianthera javeirii

Drawing by © Fredy Archila and Richardiana 10: 14 Archila 2009

Common Name Javier's Pleurothallis [Son and companion collector of author current]

Flower Size .04" [5 mm]

Found in Guatemala at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool, pendulous growing epiphyte with cylindrical ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a pendent, 2" [5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul and has a purple spotted floral bract.

Similar to P angustisepala but differs in the yellow flower [vs brown], larger flowers, purple and green leaf, a longer dorsal sepal, larger lteral sepals oblong-elliptic petals [vs oblique linear] a triangular, densely pubescent lip [vs an elliptic and warty lip] and larger fruit capsules.

Synonyms *Acianthera javieri Archila 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Richardiana 10: 14 Archila 2009 as Acianthera javieri drawing/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 javierii photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Acianthera javieri photo fide

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