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

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

Common Name or Meaning Hawkins Pleurothallis [American collector of the type species 1900’s]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Comayagua Department of Honduras at elevations around 1900 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped below the middle by a tubular sheaths and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erct, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, cordate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a from within the reclining spathe .44 to .52” [11 to 14 mm] long,, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a tubular floral bract and carrying rfeportedly red brown flowers.

Synonyms *Acronia hawkinsii Luer & Endara 2005

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

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