Pleurothallis knappiae Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Knapp's Pleurothallis [American Collector of species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Panama at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 3, delicate, distichous, 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long peduncle, loosely, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.

Synonyms Acronia knappiae (Luer) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia knappiae

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