Pleurothallis lacera Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Torn Pleurothallis [refers to the petals and lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nariño department of southern Colombia and Pichincha province of northern Ecuador at elevations around 2600 to 3200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing, caespitose terrestrial on steep banks with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, thickly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, rounded to shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on a reclining to pendent, arising through a spathe, fascile of .05 to .1" [1 to 2 mm] long, successive, single flowers with thin, tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"This species has narrow leaves that are shallowly cordate to rounded at the sessile base and has non-resupinate flowers that are not very widely expanded. The middle sepal and synsepal are dark purple, smooth and concave while the petals and lip are broad and coarsely lacerate". Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia lacera (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos lacerus (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana1(3): 248, f. 59. Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia lacera
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia lacera drawing fide
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