Pleurothallis muriculata Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Minutely Muriculate Pleurothallis [refers to the sheaths, sepals and petals]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of southeastern Ecuador on the Cordillera del Condor at elevations around 1750 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by 3 appressed tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, more or less spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile, arising through an inflated spathe, of .15 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, almost as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Unique in the section with the densely short-muriculateor coarsely short-pubescent, lowermost sheaths of the ramicauls. Also distinguished by the relatively large, fleshy flower borne on top of the large, deeply cordate leaf. The broad sepals are multiveined and cellular-papillose, the petals are acute and 3 veined and the lip is thick, ovoid, obtuse with a sulcate disc." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia muriculata (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos muriculatus (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,

IPNI ;

* Lindleyana 11: 172 ( Luer & Hortz996

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

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia muriculata drawing fidefide

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