Pleurothallis supervacanea Rchb. f. 1860 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Photo by Jorge Mario Munera
Photo by © Wilfried Löderbusch
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Empty Pleurothallis [refers to the abscence of the apical portion of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 2500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf that has a broadly cuneate to rounded and sessile base that blooms in the spring and fall on a loose, distichous, arising from a reclining spathe, simultaneously several flowered, 4 3/4" to 8" [12 to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a thin, infundibular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"An exception to SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae the spathe of P supervacanea is as large and prominent as the spathe of P pedunculata in the SUBGEN Rhynchopera.
Synonyms Acronia supervacanea (Rchb.f.) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis apoxys Luer & R. Escobar 1981
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Hamburger Garten-Blumenzeitung 16: 180 Rchb.f 1860;
Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 as P apoxys drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1991 as P phalangifera photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P supervacana;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-FasciculataeLuer 2005 as Acronia supervacanae
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