Pleurothallis juxtaposita Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
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Common Name The Juxtaposed Pleurothallis [refers to the calli above the base of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm] wide .8" [2 cm] tall
Found in Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro provinces of Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with slender, erect to ascending ramicauls with 2, tubular bracts around the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, rounded into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising from the base of the leaf through a narrow spathe, distantly and simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"The habit is small, repent and branching to form entangled masses. The peduncle, bearing a two-flowered raceme, is shorter than the little, ovate leaf. The flowers are basically similar to most of the others including fleshy sepals and fimbriate petals. Most distinguishing is the pair of rounded calli above the base of the lip. They nearly touch in the midline with a deep cleft between them." Luer 1991
Synonyms Acianthera juxtaposita (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 6(2): 103-105. 1991 Luer 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 juxtaposita;
Phytotaxa 422 (3) Zambrano 2019 as Acianthera juxtaposita drawing fide;
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