Pleurothallis maduroi Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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Photo by The Herbario de Golfito and their Herbario Website
Common Name Maduro's Pleurothallis [Panamanian Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama lower montane wet forest of the Continental Divide in the Cordillera de Talamanca at elevations around 2000 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the middle and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, ovate, acute, deeply cordate and sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe with the peduncle concealed within.
The very large single flower at the base of the large, ovate leaf with a long curved ovary and has a broadly ovate, concave, 16 to 18 veined dorsal sepal, an ovate synsepal that is concave basally beneath the lip, the petals are broad and have 5 veins and the transversly tri-lobed lip with the apex broadly rounded with the lateral lobed, rounded and erect. These features distinguish this species from olthers.
Synonyms Acronia maduroi (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos maduroi (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia maduroi; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 26, No. 1 2021, The Researchgate Website photo fide;
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