Pleurothallis pansamalae Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by Belize Botanic Garden Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Panasamala' Pleurothallis [A town in Guatemala]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemalla, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in cloud forests at elevations around 600 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths and a tubular one above and carrying a single apical, patent, thickly coriaceous, narrowly cordate, acute to subacute leaf that is cuneate below into a conduplicate, subpetiolate base and blooms in the fall on a fascile of 1 to 4, successively few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Distinguished by the narrowly ovate leaf and a small brownish flower with obtuse sepals and a short, broadly ovate, cordate lip that is deflexed below the middle and is held against the underside of the column.
Synonyms Acronia pansamalae [Schlechter] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos pansamalae (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 354 Schlechter 1912;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952 as P pansamalae var triangulabia;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing ok;
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia pansamalae
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia pansamalae drawing fide;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Suarez 2012 photo not = P pachyglossa;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Suarez 2012 photo as P pachiglossa [sic] fide;
Lankesteriana 18: 217-230 Wilson, Zhao etal 2018 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Zosterophyllanthos pansamalae
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