Pleurothallis bovilingua Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Another flower Photos by © Rodrigo Escobar and The Epidendra Orchid Photo Website Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer Common Name The Cow Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the curved labellum]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Colombia with no collection data as a large sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular basal sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, horizontal to deflexed, coriaceous, narrowly cordate-ovate, acute, acuminate, sessile and deeply cordate below leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising through a slender, reclining spathe.
Synonyms Acronia bovilingua (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos bovilingua (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol. 21 No 1 Dodson 1998 photo/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia bovilingua drawing ok; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [2]: Jimenez, Baquero, Wilson & Iturralde 2018 drawing fide
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