Myoxanthus chloe (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 1982

SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Scandentia Luer 1992

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Grass-Like Myoxanthus

Flower Size .2" [1 cm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a small sized, forming large pendent mats, cold growing epiphyte with slender, prolific, 1 to 5 in a fascile at the apex of a previous ramicaul, or stout basally, longer and enveloped by 3 to 4 tubular, shortly hispid sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect in relation to the ramicaul, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a very short peduncle, arising a the apex of the ramicaul, a congested fascile of single, successive flowers with hispid, infundibular longer than the ovary floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide;

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