Pleurothallis magnipetala C.Schweinf. 1951 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Schweinfurth and The Epidendra Orchid Website

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Common Name The Large Petaled Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cuzco department of Peru at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on a arising and enveloped by a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Superficially similar to P phyllocardioides with similar vegetative parts and sepals but the petals are entire and proportionally larger. The lip is distinctly different, being larger, thick and subtriangular with the disc shallowly concave." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia magnipetala (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos magnipetalus (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl.15: 97. 1951 Schweinfurth drawing fide;

Selbyana 1: 254 Luer 1975 drawing fide;

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

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

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