Pleurothallis polysticta Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Many Spotted Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Darien province of Panama and Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 250 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a close tubular sheath above the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, lax, arising through a prostrate spathe, to 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long including the 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long slender peduncle, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with a much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"This delicate little species differs from P. pallida and its host of relatives in the narrow leaves, the few-flowered raceme of translucent greenish white, rose-spotted flowers with entire petals and a broadly cordate, apiculate lip with a tiny pair of calli in the center of the disc." Luer 1979
"Characterized by the medium sized habit with narrowly elliptic, sessile leaves, a lax few flowered raceme longer than the leaf of long-pedicellate, transluscent greenish, purple spotted flowers with narrow, attnuate petals longer than the obtuse but acuminate dorsal sepal and similar synsepal ans a broadly cordate, apiculate lip with a smalll pair of calli at the base of the disc." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia polysticta (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 176 Luer 1979 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia polysticta
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