Pleurothallis hammelii Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Hammel's Pleurothallis [American Botanist at Missouri Botanical Garden current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in eastern Panama at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect to suberect, 1.2" [3 cm] long including the .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long peduncle, loosely and simultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has a infundibular floral bract and carries waxy yellow flowers.

Synonyms Acronia hammelii (Luer) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide;

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