Pleurothallis scurrula Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of James E. Zablotny and his Pleurothallid Page
Photo by © Eric Hunt
photo by Patricia Harding
Common Name The Little Clown Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers appearance]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru at elevations around 2200 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another near the middle and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute, basally sessile and cordate leaf that blooms in the fall on a shorter, arising through a suberect spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, close to half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinctive by the erect non-resupinate flower held above the surface of the leaf and has a broadly rounded uppermost synsepal stands behind the oblong lip that is acutely deflexed at the base and has a middle sepal that is acute and points downward while a petal recurves from either side" Carl Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia scurrula [Luer] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos scurrula (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 182 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia scurrula;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo ok; Lankesteriana 18: 217-230 Wilson, Zhao etal 2018 photo fide
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