Pleurothallis sextonii Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Photo by Wiel Driessen and his Facebook Page
Photo by the Niessen's and their Orquideas del Valle Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Sexton's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia without collection data as a small sized, shortly repent-caepsitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a short, close, tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and sessile base leaf that blooms on a loose, arising through a reclining spathe, distichous, 6" [15 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence and has a thin, tubular, as long as to slightly longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Most similar to P lopezii but distinguished by leaves that are cuneate basally instead of deeply cordate lobed, twice larger flowers and an entire, cordate lip. Differs from P dentipetala by the thrice larger flowers in a raceme longer than the leaf. Differs from P gomezii in the raceme longer than the leaf, minutely but coarsely erose-fimbriate petals and a cordate lip. Differs from P rowleei in the larger habit, ercose-fimbriate petals and a cordate lip. Differs from P longipedicellata in the twice larger flowers, the short-pedicellate flowers in a raceme longer than the leaf and erose-fimbriate petals." Luer 2002
Synonyms Acronia sextonii (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia sextonii;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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