Pleurothallis stellata I.Ramírez & Carnevali 2003 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Star-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the Distrito Federal of northern Venezuela at elevations around 1370 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin tubular shaeths below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, horizontal, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, successively single, few flowered inflorescence and carrying a non-resupinate flower.
"Distinguished by the deep purple flower color. The habit with a narrowly ovate, horizontal, cordate leaf is common in the section. The sepals andpetals are acute and widely expanded. The lip is more or less triangular with suberect lateral angles." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia stellata (I.Ramírez & Carnevali) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos stellatus (I.Ramírez & Carnevali) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References
* Novon 13: 417 I.Ramírez & Carnevali 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia stellata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia stellata drawing fide
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