Pleurothallis semiscabra Lindl. 1846 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos courtesy of Christian Gegenbauer
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Half Rough Pleurothallis [Refers to the labellum]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Merida and Trujillo states of northwestern Venezuela 1500 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cool to cold caespitose growing epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by a close tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, coriaceous, ovate to narrowly ovate, cordate, acute, slightly acuminate, basally sessile leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a short, arising from a reclining spathe successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying a non-resupinate flower.
Characterized by the non-resupinate flower arising through a reclining spathe at the base of a cordate leaf with the middle sepal round and the uppermost synsepal behind the lip is transversely ovate. The petals are widest towards the apex and are apiculate and the lip is subqudrate and diffusely verrucose.
Synonyms Acronia semiscabra [Lindl.] Luer 2005; Humboldtia semiscabra (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Zosterophyllanthos semiscaber (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orchid. Linden.: 2 Lindley 1846;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia semiscabra
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia semiscabra drawing fide
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