Pleurothallis recurvata Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Recurved Pleurothallis [refers to the sepals and petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe and Morona-Santiago provinces southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 950 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 other ones at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in summer on a fascile, arising through and concealed by a spathe, of slender, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long peduncles, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Thin ramicauls bear a small, ovate-cordate leaf with a medium sized flower above the base. The sepals are most easily distinguished by the revolute sides. The oblong petals curve up. The lip is thick and obpyriform with a large flat glenion." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia recurvata (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos recurvatus (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 182 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia recurvata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia recurvata drawing fide
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