Pleurothallis vinealis Luer & R.Escobar 1986 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Vine Like Pleurothallis [refers to the plant habit]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia and Azuay province of Ecuador at elevations of 2700 to 3400 meters as a small to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a vine like rhizome giving rise to slender, prolific, climbing ramicauls enveloped below by a slender, tubular bract near the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a short, arising through and concealed by a spathe at the base of the leaf, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying a solitary, brown, bilabiate flower.

The plant habit is unique and the most distinguishing feature as it can twine and branch through a shrub fully exposed to the wind, rain and sun and can attain a meter or more in length, but the flowers are very similar to many in the section and are most like P coriocardia but the petals are proportionately longer.

Synonyms Acronia vinealis (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos vinealis (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Marg. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 1986 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

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

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

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