Pleurothallis omissa Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo by © Gustavo Romero

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Left Out Pleurothallis [refers to the status of the species in Venezuela]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Amazonas and Apure states of Venezuela at elevations around 150 to 175 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, shortly repent epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped at the base by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, arching, .2" [5 mm] long, becoming slightly thicker towards the apex, congested, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Similar to P fockei but the dorsal sepals of P omissa is obtuse and as long as the synsepal. The lip is broadly rounded apically and has retrorse marginal lobes below the middle above the unguiculate base." Luer 1999

Synonyms Acianthera omissa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:245 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera omissa;

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 drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera omissa photo fide '

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