Pleurothallis melanoglossa Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Black Tongued Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Risaralda department of Colombia at elevations around 2800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout, broadly expanded towards the apex, sharply winged ramicauls enveloped at the base by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, margins of the sessile base continuous with the sharply winged apex of the ramicaul that blooms in the spring on a horizontal, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, .4" [1 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Vegetatively similar to P sicaria but the flowers have rigidly fleshy and microscopically pubescent externally. The petals are obovate and minutely denticulate with the midvein markedly thickened above the middle, with erect, uncinate latereal lobes below the middle." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera melanoglossa (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 74. Luer 1996 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 melanoglossa
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