Pleurothallis toachica Luer & Dodson 1996 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Janovek and Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Rio Toachi Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing, supposed caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect to reclining, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long including the stout .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Related to P quadriserrata but distinguished by the petals that are rounded apically, not acute and the crested lateral veins are thickened and medial, instead of thin and just within the margins. In additon the flowers are not striped, the dorsal sepal is narrowly obovate and obtuse instead of narrowly triangular and acute and the lamellae of the lip are absent in P quadriserrata." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera toachica (Luer & Dodson) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 188 Luer & Dodson 1996 drawing fide;
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 2004 as Acianthera toachica;
Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera toachica photo fide
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