Myoxanthus parvilabius (C.Schweinf.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Scandentia Luer 1992

Photo by © Werkhoven

Drawing

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

LATER THROUGH MID

Common Name The Small Lip Myoxanthus

Flower Size .2" [.5 cm]

Found in Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 780 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a scandent, almost shrublike masses of branching stems as a stout, erect, prolific [to 8 arising from one] ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 8, tubular, shortly hispid sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer through mid winter on a congested fascile of .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with hispid floral bracts and 1 to 3 simulataneously opening flowers at any one time.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis parvilabia C.Schweinf. 1962

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 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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