Pleurothallis lemniscifolia Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Narrow Ribbon Pleurothallis [refers to the leaf]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of northcentral Ecuador at elevations of 1600 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, more or less horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a closely adpressed, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, pendent, flexible, elongate, narrowly linear, acute, revolute sides, shallowly cordate below into the the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a pendent, arising through and concealed completely by a spathe, a fascile of short, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular as long as to just short of the pedicel floral bracts..

"Characterized by extrodinarily long and narrow, ribbon-like leaves that dangle from the ends of long, slender, wire-like ramicauls. Yound leaves are straight but older leaves often twist or curl. THe flower is brown with an obtuse dorsal sepal and synsepal, the petals are narrow and enticulate and the oblong lip is covered with short, whote hairs Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia lemniscifolia (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos lemniscifolius (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 103: 149, f. 113. Luer 1975 Drawing fide;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarm Plate 241 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia lemniscifolia

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia lemniscifolia drawing fide;

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