Echinosepala balaeniceps (Luer & Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002
photos/TYPE drawing pf Pleurothallis balaeniceps by © by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Whale-Headed Echinosepala [refers to the flower shape]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Veraguas department of Panama in montane cloud forests at elevations around 850 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with stout, ascending ramicauls with 3 loose, imbricating, tubular, often fragmented sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a pubescent, single flowered inflorescence arising on any of the lower nodes of the ramicaul or rhizome and carrying a single, non-resupinate flower
Synonyms Brenesia balaeniceps (Luer & Dressler) Luer 2004; Echinella balaeniceps (Luer & Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Myoxanthus balaeniceps (Luer & Dressler) Luer 1992; *Pleurothallis balaeniceps Luer & Dressler 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 1986 as Pleurothallis balaeniceps drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 as Myoxanthus balaeniceps drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Brenesia balaeniceps;
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