Pleurothallis sergioi Luer & R.Escobar 2003 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning Sergio's Pleurothallis [Colombian Orchid Enthusaist and Catholic priest late 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Colombia without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramcauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical oblong, acute, subconduplicate, cuneate and shortly subcordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a reclining, arising through a small fugacious spathe at the base of the leaf, fascile of 4 to 8, each .04" [1 mm] long, simultaenously single flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicels floral bracts and carrying dark yellow flowers with red-maroon nerves.

"Characterized by a small habit, narrow, rigid, thickly coriaceous, more or less conduplicate leaves ad a fascile of several, simultanous, yellow flower with red brown stripes along the veins. The sepals are obtuse, the petals are much smaller and acute and the lip is obtusely ovate." Luer 2005

Synonyms Acronia sergioi (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquideologia Vol 22 #3 2003 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia sergioi

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia sergioi drawing fide

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