Pleurothallis sagittilabia Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Arrow-Shaped Lip Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, round in cross-section, ramcauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath above the base amd another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, sessile, narrowy ovate, acute, long-mucronate, broadly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising and mostly enveloped by a prostrate spathe at the base of the leaf fascile of .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Closely related to P rowleei but distinguished by the short, successively single flowered inflorescence. Within the Series Amphygiae it is closest to P forceps-cancri but differs in the much shorter, non-caudate sepals and petals." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia sagittilabia (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia sagittilabia
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