Pleurothallis transversilabia Carnevali & I.Ramírez 2000 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Transverse Lip Pleurothallis [refers to the expanded lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Carabobo state of Venezuela at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, shallowly cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short peduncle, arising through and concealed by a spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying a non-resupinate flower.

"Very similar to P tridentata which has a lip variable in width. P transversilabia is just an extreme version of that lip wrapped almost all the way around the column. Otherwise they are very similar both vegetatively and in all other parts of the flower.

Synonyms Acronia transversilabia (Carnevali & I.Ramírez) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos transversilabius (Carnevali & I.Ramírez) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 ed. 2: 1145 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia transversilabia

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia transversilabia drawing fide;

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