Pleurothallis tikalensis Correll & C. Schweinf. 1965 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photos courtesy of Weyman Bussey plant grown by Woodstream OrchidsCopyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Tikal Pleurothallis [National Park In Guatemala]
Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]
Found in Campeche state of southern Mexico, Belize and Peten department of Guatemala in swamps and dense savannah and less so in tropical rainforests and lower montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growingshortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with a pendant ramicaul enveloped by obtuse, tubular-funnel shaped sheaths and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, lanceolate to elliptic, acute to obtuse apicallly, purple lined, gradually narrowing below into the sessile, conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a repent, arising from a membraneaceous, conduplicate, triangular, thin, carinate spathe, racemose, shorter than the leaf, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, .8 to 1.8" [2 to 4.5 cm] long overall, congested, distichous, simultaneously 6 to 10 flowered, inflorescence and has obliquely tubular, obtuse, shortly apiculate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Allied with P pubescens but distinguished by the leaves with a marginal delineation and a short raceme of fleshy, purple striped flowers. The sysepal is deeply concave at the base with a column foot. The petals are broadly flabellate and minutely fringed. The lip is oblong with small, rounded lateral lobes below the middle." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera tikalensis (Correll & C. Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 190 Correll & Schweinfurth 1965;
Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 190 Correll & Schweinfurth 1965 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 11 1988 photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:246 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera tikalensis;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 511 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Acianthera tikalensis drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Acianthera tikalensis photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Acianthera tikalensis photo fide;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Acianthera tikalensis photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Acianthera tikalensis;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera tikalensis photo fide
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