Myoxanthus melittanthus (Schltr.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Honey-Bee Flowered Myoxanthus
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 2300 to 3000 as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with .4" [1 cm] between each slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 7 tubular, hispidous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a fascile of single, successive flowers arising at the apex of the ramicaul and has pubescent floral bracts.
Synonyms *Pleurothallis melittantha Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:49 Schlechter 1924 as Pleurothallis melittantha; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; 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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