Pleurothallis scabrilinguis Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © L. Vélez-Abarca from photos by M. M. Jiménez. and PLEUROTHALLIS ARIANA-DAYANAEA NEW_SPECIES IN SUBSECTION MACROPHYLLAE FASCICULATAE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE FROM THE CORDILLERA DEL CONDOR ECUADOR Vélez-Abarca, M.M.Jiménez, Baquero & D.Gut.del Pozo 2022
Plant and Flowers ?in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Scabrous Lipped Pleurothallis [refers to the labellum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1500 to 3300 meters on steep banks as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, erect, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath on the lower half and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, rigid, thickly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a fascile, arising through a spathe, of .05 to .15" [1 to 3 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers
Similar species are P. applanata and P ariana-dayanae and P paquisahe
The photos by Andreas Kaye and Alex Reynolds appear to be another species????
Synonyms Acronia scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Luer 2005; Humboldtia scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Kuntze1891; Zosterophyllanthos scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 354 Lindley 1837;
Selbyana 1: 282 Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia scabrilinguis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia scabrilinguis drawing good lip shorter in photo;
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