Pleurothallis nox-media Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Midnight Pleurothallis [refers to the dark flower color]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute rounded to subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect to arching, lax, distichous, arising from a slender spathe, 4.8 to 6.4" [12 to 16 cm] long including the 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long peduncle, simultaneoulsy few to several flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by stout ramicauls, large, sessile, cordate-ovate leaves and a longer racemof relatively large purple-black flowrs. The fringed petals are retained within incurved sides of the synsepal. The lip is oblong and convex with the rounded apex recurved." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia nox-media (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 21 #1 Luer & Escobar 1998 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia nox-media;
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