Pleurothallis dressleri Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dresslera Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Tuang Luong and His Terra Gallery Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Dressler's Pleurothallis [American Botanist in Central America 2019]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Panama as an epiphyte on mossy limbs at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to a single, globose to ovate, green with white reticulation, apiculate, abruptly narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, [6mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base and a tubular, acuminate floral bract carrying a giant flower.
Synonyms Areldia dressleri (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis dressleri; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Areldia dressleri; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Areldia dresslerii drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklnia dressleri photo fide
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