Pleurothallis pseudopogon Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The False Beard Pleurothallis [refers to the blade of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carying a single, apical, erect to more or less spreading, coriaceous, elliptical ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on slender, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 1.6" [ 4 cm] long, successively, single, few flowered inflorescence with infundibular longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
" Allied to P habenula but distinguished by the larger flowers, a synsepal convex below the middle, narrowly oblong, acute petals and an obovate, fringed blade of the lip." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia pseudopogon (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia pseudopogon
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