Pleurothallis pileata Luer & R.Escobar 1982 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Sebastian Vieira and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name The Capped Pleurothallis [refers to the cucullate dorsal sepal]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Choco' and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations around 600 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, spreading, ovate-cordate, acute, acuminate, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall through early winter on a suberect, arising from and concealed by a reclining spathe, .12" [ 3 mm] long, succesively single, few flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicel floral bract.
Characterized by the slender ramicauls, spreading, sessil, cordate leaves and a reclining spathe. A resupinate flower witha deeply concave, seven veined dorsal sepal is produced successively. The petals and liparch forward from beneath the dorsal sepal. The middle lobe of the trilobed lip is purple black while the basal lobess are red and broadly falcate.
The photo above differs from the type in the lack of the basal wings of the lip and the lack of black in the apical half of the lip." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia pileata (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos pileata (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 15(2–3): 142. Luer & Escobar 1982 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia pileata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia pileata drawing fide;
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