Pleurothallis viridis Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLIER
Common Name The Green Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago and Pichinche provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 700 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, shortly repent epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular bract in the lower fourth and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the earlier summer on an erect, strict, subcongested, distichous, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf with an oblique, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Similar to the widely distributed and common P lanceana but differs in this one has thin elliptical, acuminate leaves, a few flowered racemose of smaller green flowers that is shorter than the leaf and has obtuse, minutely denticulate, green petals with a pair of carinate nerves and an oblong, minutely denticulate lip with denticulate carinae.
Synonyms Acianthera viridis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 194 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurthallis Luer 1986;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 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 viridis
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