Pleurothallis volans Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Flying Pleurothallis [refers to the upswept leaves, resembling wings]
Flower Size 3/8"
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 950 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile, arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Most distinctive is the upswept leaf that gradually and gracefully ascends and has flowers with concave, transeversely ovate sepals and broad, glabrous, obtuse, shortly apiculate and unguiculate petals.
Synonyms Acronia volans [Luer & Hirtz] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos volans (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 195 Luer & Hirtz 1996
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia volans
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia volans drawing fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Lankesteriana 18: 217-230 Wilson, Zhao etal 2018 photo fide;
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