Pleurothallis rodrigoi Luer 2003 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Rodrigo's Pleurothallis [Sr Escobar - Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 1935-2009]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing, shortly repent epiphyte with erect, sharply three winged ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate below into sessile base leaf with the margins continuous with the wings of the ramicaul that blooms in the winter on 3 to 4, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, congested, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long including the .12 to .2" [3 to 5 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
Similar to the variable P sicaria but differs most markedly in its gigantic size, with ramicauls twice the length of P sicaria and the leaves are three times wider, but also in the small flowers with thick, obtuse sepals and the obovate, membraneous petals.
Synonyms Acianthera rodrigoi (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botanica 4[3]: 3-24 Luer 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 2004 as Acianthera rodrigoi
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