Myoxanthus ceratothallis ( Rchb.f. ) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Common Name or Meaning The Horn-Like Branch Myoxanthus [refers to the flowers at the apex of the ramicaul or horn-like appendages on the lobes of the lip
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1125 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 9 hispidulous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute leaf that is cuneate below into the subpetiolate base and blooms in the summer and fall on a short fascile of single successive flowers arising at the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Dubois-reymondia lancipetala Karst 1860; Humboldtia ceratothallis Kuntze 1891; Myoxanthus affinoides Luer 1983; Myoxanthus herzogii[Schlechter] Luer 1882; Myoxanthus lancipetalus (H.Karst.) Luer 1982; *Pleurothallis ceratothallis Rchb.f. 1854; Pleurothallis herzogii Schlechter 1913; Pleurothallis lancipetala [Karst.] Schlechter 1919; Pleurothallis longipes Kornicke 1855;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Pleurothallis lancipetala drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964 as P lancipetal; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Pleurothallis lancipetala; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 as P ceratothallis drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P lancipetala; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as Pleurothallis lancipetala; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Pleurothallis ceratothallis drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Pleurothallis lancipetala drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 as M affinoides drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as M aff herzogii photo NOT?????; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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