Myoxanthus frutex (Schltr.) Luer 1982
SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Scandentia Luer 1992
Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and The Atrium Biodiversity Orchid Website
LATE
Through EARLY 
Common Name The Shrubby Myoxanthus [refers to the appearance of the plant]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1900 to 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with prolific, slender, up to 14 in a fascile at the apex of the old ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, tubular, shortly hispidulous sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly ellipical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter through early fall on a fascile of several, .04 " [1 mm] long, simultaneous, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with 1 to 5, simultaneous flowers and hispid, infundibular floral bracts.
Synonyms *Pleurothallis frutex Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as Pleurothallis frutex; 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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