Myoxanthus merae (Luer) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundatrion at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Mera Myoxanthus [A town in Ecuador near where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in central to southern Ecuador in forests at elevations of 950 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicuals enveloped by 4 to 6 tubular, hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and early fall on a .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with tubular, pubescent floral bracts that envelop both the pedicel and ovary.
Synonyms *Pleurothallis merae Luer 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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