Pleurothallis pantasmi Rchb.f.1855 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

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Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Mt. Pantasmo Pleurothallis [A Mountain in northern Nicaragua]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Yoro departemnt of Honduras, Jinotega, Chontales and Nueva Segovia departments of Nicaragua, Cartago and Limon provinces of Costa Rica and Pichincha, Esmeraldas and Azuay provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, sharply three winged, gradually broader towards the leaf ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubualr sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile base with the margins continuous with the wings of the ramicaul that blooms in the winter on a congested, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, .4" [1 cm] long, simultaneously 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Characterized by the sharply winged ramicauls that bear considerably shorter leaves with which the margins of the leaf and wings of the ramicaul are continuous. A few small, dark brown, fleshy, minutely pubescent flowers are borne in a short, congested raceme at the bsae of the leaf. The sepals are tuberculate within and the petals are microscopically serrate. The lip is thick with a pair of central calli on the middle third and above the bilobulate base a cleft callus." Luer 2004

Synonyms Acianthera pantasmi (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Humboldtia pantasmi (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis cingens Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;

* Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 224 Rchb.f 1855

Schedul. Orch. 10: 23-24 Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930 as P cingens;

* Bonplandia 3:224. Rchb.f 1855;

Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:668 Kuntze1891 as Humboldtia pantasmi;

Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 24. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;

Icones Planetraum Tropicarum Plate 1118 Hamer 1984 drawing ok;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

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

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

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

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;

Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Acianthera pantasmi photo fide;

Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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

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