Pleurothallis annectens Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Linked Pleurothallis [refers to a link between Series Amphygiae and Series Acroniae]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Chiriqui Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others above the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, suberect, ovate, acute, rounded to shallowly cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile of .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.

Synonyms Acronia annectens (Luer) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Selbyana 3(3-4): 240-241, f. 221 Luer 1977 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia annectens;

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