Pleurothallis rhodoglossa Schltr.1922 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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Common Name or Meaning The Red Tongued Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Limon and San Jose provinces of Costa Rica, Chiriqui and Panama province of Panama, Cauca department of Colombia and Carchi, Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Pichincha, Los Rios, Morona-santiago, El Oro, Azuay and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters as small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, broadly ovate, subacute to obtuse, acuminate, long-mucronate, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a suberect, arising and enveloped by a spathe at the base of the leaf, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the slender ramicaul with a relatively large, deeply cordae leaf acuminate at the tip. The sepals vary from white to pale yellow and between .12 to .24" [3 to 6 mm] long. The oblong petals are minutely denticulate. The red or yellow lip is ovate, obtuse and shallowly cordate at the base. At the base of the disc the glenion is bilobed." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia rhodoglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos rhodoglossus (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 22. Schlechter 1922 ;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia rhodoglossa ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia rhodoglossa drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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