Pleurothallis neorinkei A.Doucette 2016 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Mark Wilson/TYPE Drawing by © A Doucette
Common Name The New Rinkei Pleurothallis [American orchid Enthusiast Brian Rinke current ]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador without callection data as a small sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramcaiuls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and carrying s single, pendent, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, codate below intothe sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncel .12 to .2" [3 to 5 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract amnd carrying a fleshy, glabrous flower.
"Distinguished by a pendent narrowly ovate leaf, a colorful flower subtended by a reclining spathe and a tick, convex, pandiform lip>" Luer 2011
Pleurothallis neorinkei is similar to and often confused with P ascera also found in Colombia but P neorinkei is distinguished by the flower morphology such as narrower petals instead of wider and the narrower lip which is revolute instead of involute as in P ascera
Synonyms *Acronia rinkei Luer 2011
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 316 Luer 2011 as Acronia rinkei;
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