Pleurothallis pollardiana Solano in ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing of Acianthera pollardiana;

Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Gerardo A Salazar

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Common Name or Meaning Pollard's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Botanist in Mexico 1976]

Flower Size .2" x .4" [.5 to 1 cm]

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in the Sierra Madre del Sur in pine-oak or ravine mesophytic forests at elevations of 2,000 to 2,200 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a short, globose rhizome consisitng of 3 internodes giving rise to a straight to slightly archingm progressively dilated and winged towards the apex, as long or longer than the leaf ramocauls carrying a single, apical, fleshy, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, obtuse-rounded, shortly bilobed apically with a minute mucro beteween the lobes, abruptly narrowing below in to the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, racemose, arising through a conduplicate, obtuse, scarious sheath, with 2 overlapping bracts above, peduncle .28" [87 mm] long, to 1.2" [3 cm] long overall, rachis abbreviated, successively 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with obliquely funnel-shaped, obtuse, membranous, greenish yellow, .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, overlapping, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms *Acianthera pollardiana Solano 2015

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Phytotaxa 218: 42 Solano 2015 as Acianthera pollardiana

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera pollardiana photo fide

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