Pleurothallis perijaensis Dunst. 1978 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.
Photo courtesy of Bernard Gerrard.
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Sierra de Perija Pleurothallis [mountain range in Venezuela]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Zulia state of Venezuela, Norte de Santander department of Colombia and Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly cordate leaf that blooms throughout the year on a short, holding the pendant flower somewhat within the cordate leaf base, a fascile of successviely single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Differs in the deflexed, narrowly cordate leaf that curves upward beyond the middle carrying an erect, foliaceous spathe giving rise to a dark purple flower with reflexed petals and a markedly verrucose lip." Carl Luer2005
Synonyms Acronia perijaensis [Dunst.] ALuer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos perijaensis ( Dunst. ) Szlach. & Margonska 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 2: 210 Dunsterville 1978 Drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 7 1981 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 550 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia perijaensis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia perijaensis drawing fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
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