Pleurothallis mystax Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Mystax Luer 1986 TYPE for the SUBGENUS
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Mustached Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 650 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, miniature epiphyte with a well developed ramicaul enveloped basally by a loose tubular sheath carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical, obtuse, rounded and sessile basally leaf that blooms in the fall on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, longer than the leaf 2 flowered, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe.
Synonyms Mystacorchis mystax [Luer] Szach & Marg. 2001; Stelis mystax (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis mystax; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 9 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Mystacorchis mystax; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #3 2014 as Stelis mystax photo fide;
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