Pleurothallis thymochila Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Dracontia SECTION Dracontia Luer 1986
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Website.
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Warty Lipped Pleurothallis [refers to the verrucose lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Panama and Cocle' provinces of Panama at elevations around 350 to 1750 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by a thin, close fitting, tubular sheath and 2 shorter sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, obtuse, subsessile, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, arising through a slender spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, slender, subflexuous, 11.2" [28 cm] long, distantly several flowered, racemose inflorescence with half as long or less than the pedicel floral bracts.with 2 to 3 flowers open at any one time.
Closest to P pachyglosssa but differs in the obtuse, sessile leaf, an inconspicuous spathe, a loose, successively flowering inflorescence with medium sized flowers with rounded, erect basal lobes of a broad, thick, verrucose lip.
Synonyms Dracontia thymochila (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis thymochila (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3(3-4): 398-399, f. 299. Luer 1977 Drawing;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana 16(4): 267. Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis thymochila
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004as Dracontia thymochila
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