Pleurothallis tintinnabula Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Dracontia SECTION Dracontia Luer 1986
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Bell-Like Pleurothallis [refers to the hanging flowers]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Guanacaste province of Costa Rica in wet forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a thin, close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 shorter sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, arising laterally through a spathe from the apex of the ramicaul, loose, secund flexuous, simultaneously 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Most similar to P papillifera but distinguished by the small habit, an acute, elliptical leaf, a flexuous raceme longer tha the leaf with several , nutant, purple flowers, obtuse concave dorsal sepal and synsepal, obtuse, concave, verrucose petlas and a thick, ovate, obtuse, subverrucose lep with thin, erect, rounded basal lobes." Luer 1998
Synonyms Dracontia tintinnabula (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis tintinnabula (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11(2): 94, f. 27. Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:267 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis tintinabula;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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 tintinnabula;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 as Dracontia tintinnabula photo fide;
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