Pleurothallis tamaensis Foldats 1968 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Tama Pleurothallis [A town in Tachira state of Venezuela]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in northwestern Venezuela at elevations around 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, loose, tubular, basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaceous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, apically minutely tridentate, cardate below into the base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a short, arising through a spathe with the flower lying against the center of the leaf [prostrate], single, successive flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.

This species is related to P cubitoria restricted to southern Ecuador and P microcardia which is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This one is distinguished by the floral parts being twice longer than in the other 2 species.

Synonyms Acronia microcardia subsp. tamaensis (Foldats) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos tamaensis (Foldats) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 392 Foldats 1968;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia microcardia ssp tamaensis

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia microcardia ssp tamaensis drawing fide;

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