Pleurothallis ankyloglossa Luer & Hirtz 2000 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 Photo by © Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Split Tongued Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide x 1.6" [4 cm] long

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender elongate ramicauls carrying a single, apical, linear, gradually narrowing below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on several, erect, 8" [20 cm] long, successively flowering inflorescence.

Synonyms Acronia ankyloglossa (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing good petals seem wrong; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia ankyloglossa; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 2003 photo fide

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