Pleurothallis bucculenta Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859 Photo by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Hewrbaria Website

Full shade CoolLATE Summer EARLYFall

Common Name or Meaning The Full Cheek Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Tungurahua Ecuador on road embankments at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, erect ramicauls with a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apcial, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising and concealed within a spathe.

Synonyms Acronia bucculenta (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos bucculentus (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Luer 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia cauda-hirundinis

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