Pleurothallis phalangifera (C. Presl) Rchb.f. 1861 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988

Photo by © Jay Pfahl, plant grown by Arturo Carrillo

Reddish Flower

Green Flower Variety

Photo by Eric Hunt, plants grown by Hanging Gardens

Flower Closeup

Photo by Andreas Philipp

Another Color variety

Photo courtesy of Travis Olsen, photo by Richard Burian, Plant grown by Rob Lucas,

Plant and Flowers in situ Cundinamarca Colombia 12/06

Photo by Jay Pfahl

Drawing

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The Phalanx Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, repent to caespitose epiphytic or terrestrial herb at altitudes of 1200 to 3200 meters with slender, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 spotted, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ovate, apiculate, coriaceous, rounded basally and tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring with a terminal, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long raceme held longer than the leaf with compressed basal sheath bracts and laxly few large, spidery flowers.

Similar vegetatively to P gomezii but it has a shorter than the leaf inflorescence and considerably smaller flowers and P rowleei has similar flowers.

Synonyms *Acronia phalangifera C. Presl. 1827; Humboldtia decurva (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia matthewsii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia phalangifera (C.Presl) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia decurva [Lindl.]Kuntze 1891; Humboltia matthewsii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia phalangifera [Persl.] Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis bogotensis Lindl. 1846; Pleurothallis decurva Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis ineziae Schlctr. 1924; Pleurothallis mathewsii Lindl. 1836; Pleurothallis nasuta Schltr. 1924; Pleurothallis schnitteri Schltr. 1921; Pleurothallis werneri Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 355 Lindley 1837 as P matthewsii;

Orchid. Linden.: 1 Lindley 1846 as P bogotensis;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as P bogotensis; Fol. Orchid. 9: 8 Lindley 1859;

W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 168 Rchb.f 1861;

Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 530 Schlechter 1921 as P schnitteri;

Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:47 Schlechter 1924 as P ineziae;

Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:57 Schlechter 1924 as P werneri;

Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:162 Schlechter 1924 as P bogotensis;

Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:164 Schlechter 1924 as P nasuta;

Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 10 1979 photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo not = P supervacana;

The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 1 1993 photo fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P supervacana;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm;

Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia phalagifera;

AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 photo as Acronia phalangifera;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007;

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 283 photo fide;

Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 290 photo fide;

Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as Acronia phalangifera photo ok

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