Pleurothallis sotoanum [Solano] In ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

photo/Drawing by © R. Solano Lankesteriana Vol 9 pg447 2010

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Common Name Soto's Pleurothallis [Mexican Botanist passed 2009]

Flower Size .64 to .84" [1.7 to 2.1 cm]

Found in Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico on moss covered, riverbank canyon wall at elevations of 1125 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, shortly repent lithophyte with a short rhizome giving rise to erect, cylindrical, 4 to 5 internoded ramicauls enveloped completely by laterally compressed, , apically inflated, imbricate, obtuse, carinate along the nerves, densely splotched with purple sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse, coriaceous, shortly bilobed and mucronate apically, lightly recurved margins, sessile leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and early fall on a from the base of the stem to terminal, erect to reclining, arising through a conduplicate, triangular, obtues, scarious spathe, peduncle .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long, cylindrical, provided with 2 above and to 5 on the lower inflorescence, racemose, 2 to 2.6" [5 to 6.5 cm] long, simultaneously to 10 flowered inflorescence with obliquely infundibuliform, imbricat, obtus, membraneous, densely covered with purple spots floral bracts and carrying not well opening flowers.

Synonyms *Acianthera sotoana Solano 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lankesteriana 9: 447 Solano 2010 as Acianthera sotoana drawing fide

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