Pleurothallis tokachii Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Tokachi's Pleurothallis [American Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Amazonas department of Peru at upper elevations as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, sharply three winged, slightly broader at the leaf junction ramicauls with 2 to 3 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigidly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, the wings of the ramicaul continuous with the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a very short, arising through a fugaceous spathe at the base of the leaf, congested, to .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long including the .12" [3 mm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence withinflated, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"The flowers are fleshy and the brownish sepals are ciliate, shortly pubescent externally and lightly verrucose within. The laterals are connate into an orbicular, deflexed, convex lamina. The lip is very thick with erect basal lobules and a broad, verrucose, inflexed apex with deflexed sides. A pair of thick, verrucose calli occupy the middle of the disc." Luer 1997
Synonyms Acianthera tokachii (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 12:51 Luer 1997 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 tokachii;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera tokachi photo fide;
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 tokachii photo fide
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