Pleurothallis phymatodea Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Bryon Rinke
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Warty Pleurothallis [refers to the floral parts]
Flower Size .2" [4 mm]
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 600 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, loose, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading to horizontal, thickly coriaceous, ovate, acute, concave centrally between conves halves, deeply cordate with overlapping lobes, sessile below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, concealed within the spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Identified by the small, blackish purple, non-resupinate flower with obtuse sepals and incurved petals that are densely verrucose and the thick lip has a deep central cavity.
Synonyms Acronia phymatodea (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos phymatodeus (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 170 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P phasmatodes;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia phymatodea
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia phymatodea drawing fide
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