Pleurothallis paraniesseniae, J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photos by Kevin Holcomb
TYPE Drawing of Acronia nisseniae
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Another Pleurothallis niessseniae Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia near sea level as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 to 3, peduncle .1" [2.5 mm] long, simultaneous, single flowered inflorescence with as long as to slightly shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Most similar to P simulans but distinguished by an elliptical, subpetiolate leaf and a fascile of 2 to 3 simultaneous, purple flowers. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are narrowly ovate and attenuate, the outstetched petals are fringed and the lip is broadly ovate with a zone of pubescence along the margins." Luer 2011
Synonyms Acronia niesseniae Luer 2011; Zosterophyllanthos niesseniae (Luer) Szlach. & Kolan. 2016
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16[2]: 314 Miscellaous New Species in Pleurothallidinae Luer 2011 as Acronia niessenias drawing fide;
* Orchid Rev. 122: 77 J M H Shaw 2014;
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