Pleurothallis gracilipedunculata Foldats 1968 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 Photo by © Andreas Philipp and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Slender Inflorescence Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Venezuela and Colombia at elevations of 2300 to 2650 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, fascile of single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.

Synonyms Acronia gracilipedunculata (Foldats) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 17 Luer 1998 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia gracilipedunculata

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