Myoxanthus congestus (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Soto Arenas 2008SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Myoxanthus Luer 1992
Photo by © JM VP The Orquideas Mexicanas Website
Photo by Patricia Harding
Common Name The Congested Myoxanthus
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Coasta Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Guyanas in forested ravines at elevations of 200 to 1300 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 6, tubular, hispidous sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical to narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute leaf that is cuneate below into a conduplicate, subpetiolate base and blooms in the fall on a fascile of single, successive flowers, producing from 1 to 20 simultaneously at the apex of the ramicaul with sparsly pubescent floral bracts.
Synonyms Myoxanthus octomeriae (Schltr.) Luer 1982; Myoxanthus octomerioides var. octomeriae (Schltr.) O.Gruss & M.Wolff 2007; *Pleurothallis congesta A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pleurothallis octomeriae Schltr. 1922; Pleurothallis ramentacea Garay & Dunst. 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 21. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Pleurothallis octomeriae; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Pleurothallis octomeriae; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Pleurothallis ramentacea drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Pleurothallis racementacea drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 879 Dodson 1983 as M octomeriae drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 as M octomeriae drawing fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo not! = M exasp[eratus Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as M octomeriae; *Icones Orchidacearum 10 Plate 1053 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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