Pleurothallis fonnegrae (Luer & Endara) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia fonnegrae by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning Fonnegra Pleurothallis [Colombian from the Curso Taxonomia vegetal current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in on the Western Cordillera of Antioquia in the department of Colombia at elevations around 1900 meters as a mniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a tubular, bract in the lower third and another at the base carrying a single, spreading, coriaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse, acuminate, sessile, deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of .28" [7 mm] long peduncles, successively single flowered inflorescence all concealed by the broad spathe, with longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms *Acronia fonnegrae Luer & Endara 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia fonnegrae drawing fide;

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