Pleurothallis sandaliorum G.A.Romero & Carnevali 2000 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Gustavo Romero
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Sandalio's Pleurothallis [Venezuelan Family in remembrance of their hospitality]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela at elevations around 120 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, shortly repent epiphyte with erect, sharply compressed ramicauls enveloped with 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, broadly elliptical to suborbicular, obtuse, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a reclining, arising through a disintegrating spathe at the base of the leaf, in a fascile of descending, peduncle .06 to .08" [1.5 to 2 mm] long , successively single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Vegetatively similar to P erythrogramma with a sircular, deeply cordate leaf brone by a sharply compressed ramicaul. The single flower is smaller with fleshy, obtuse sepals. The petals area microscopically denticulate. The lip is three lobed, basically similar to most species of the subgenus." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera sandaliorum (G.A.Romero & Carnevali) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 5: 182 Romero & Carnevali 2000;
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 as Acianthera sandaliorum;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera sandaliorum photo fide
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