Pleurothallis omoglossa Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Shoulder Tongued Pleurothallis [refers to the base of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe, Morona-Santiago and Pastaza provinces of Ecuador and Surinam at elevations of 900 to 2550 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, elongate, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly cordate, acute, leaf that blooms on a short, arising through and concealed within a reclining spathe, successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter tha the pedicel floral bract.
Differs from P bivalvis in having narrow leaves and small flowers with a three veined dorsal sepal and a proportionately large, oblong, denticulate petals that are sometimes as long as the synsepal, and most of all the lip with basal angles that are slightly incurved from either side to the truncate base and their is a concave disc and the lateral margins of the glenion are elevated.
Synonyms Acronia omoglossa (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos omoglossus (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 152 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia omoglossa
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia omoglossa drawing fide
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