Pleurothallis oxapampae Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer
EARLY 
Common Name or Meaning The Oxapampa Pleurothallis [A Peruvian town near the collection site]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Pasco department of Peru at elvations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped below the middle by a tubular sheath and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a .08" [2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising and concealed within a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf and has a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract
"Characterized by the small habit with narrowly ovate leaves, an acute dorsal sepal and synsepal, narrow, pubescent-denticulate petals and a narrow lip with recurved sides, an incurved, apiculate apex and a dilated base." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia oxapampae (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos oxapampae (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 As Acronia oxapampae
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 As Acronia oxapampae drawing fide
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