Pleurothallis pentamytera Luer 1994 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Five Pronged Pleurothallis [refers to the 5 lobed lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, ascending-caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with 1 to 2, loose, ribbed tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, margin denticulate towards the apex, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a capillary, lateral, .72" [1.8 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the elliptical leaves with denticulate margins near the apex reminiscent of many pleurothallids [and other subtribes) from Hispaniola. The long tails of the sepals and petals are extremely fine, finer than a hair. The lateral sepals are sparsely long-pubescent, reminiscent of its close relative P. schizopogon. Most distinctive is the fived lobed lip. The acute apical lobe is flanked by a pair of rounded lobes, medial to the acute, spreading lateral lobes. In addition a circular callus sits ont he center of the disc." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia pentamytera (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 16(4): 258. (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Andinia pentamytera;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #1 2012 photo fide; ;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia pentamytra photo fide
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