Pleurothallis megaglossa Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

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TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Giant Tongued Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Carchi and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular shheath an the lower third and 2 other at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, rounded, sessile, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a fascile of .03" [1 mm] long, successive single flowered inflorescence arising from a narrow spathe and held on top of the leaf and has tublar,as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Similar to P bivalvis but distinguished by the proportionally large lip in comparrison to the sepals and petals. Most distinctive is the narrowly linear, sessile leaf that resembles the leaf of the common P discoidea." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia megaglossa (Luer & Dalström) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos megaglossus (Luer & Dalström) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lindleyana 11: 168 Luer & Dalstrom 1996 drawing fide;

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

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

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