Pleurothallis somnolenta Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphigyne Luer 1998
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Sleeping Pleurothallis [an allusion to the gaping nodding flowers]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, slightly acuminate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erct to arching, arising through a thin spathe at the base of the leaf, congested, fascile of .68 to .72" [1.7 to 1.8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the narrowly ovate, sessile leaves, a fascile of single flowered peduncles, transluscent yellow to purple sepals .4" [1 cm] long, that are concave all the way up to the tips, oblique, acuminate, three veined petals and a three lobed lip with the broad, rounded, basal lobes flanking the column. Similar to P simulans." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia somnolenta (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 225. Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia somnolenta
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