Pleurothallis valladolidensis Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Valladolid Pleurothallis [A town in Ecuador]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Cinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect slender ramicauls enveloped partially by a close tubular sheaths below the middle and 2 shorter others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, acutely deflexed, narrowly ovate, more or less curved up above the middle of the acute apex, sessile, deeply cordate leaf that blooms on a fascile, arising through a suberect, conduplicate spathe, completely concealing the peduncle, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract and holding the flower at the base of the leaf.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Distinguished by the narrow cordate leaves that curve up beyond the middle, a comparitively large, resupinate, downward facing flower with obtuse sepals and petals and an orbicular, concave lip that is verrrucose within toward the unguiculate, callous base." Carl Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia valladolidensis (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos valladolidensis (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 54: 388 Luer 1983
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia valladolidensis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia valladolidensis drawing fide;
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