Myoxanthus eumeces (Luer) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992

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

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Common Name The Very Long Myoxanthus [refers to the elongate petals]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 2500 to 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect, much longer than the leaves ramicaul enveloped by a series of 6 to 7 tubular, hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on a congested, fascile of .16" [4 mm] long, successively single flowered infloresacence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, with echinate floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis eumeces Luer 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide

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