Pleurothallis perryi Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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Common Name or Meaning Perry's Pleurothallis [One of the original discoverers of this species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in El Oro, Cañar and Azuay provinces of Ecuador in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 230 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped basally by 1 or 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apically deflexed, cordate, acute leaf that blooms throughout the year on a very short, from the base of the leaf, through a sheathing bract, successively 1 to 2, few several flowered inflorescence with a thin, half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
Most recognized by the striped, long ciliate sepals, the broadly obovate, obtuse, ciliate petals and the transversely cordate-ovate lip. Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex.
Synonyms Acronia perryi [Luer]Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos perryi (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 247 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia perryi
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia perryi drawing fide;
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