Pleurothallis quadriserrata Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859
Photo by © Javier Zambrano Romero
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Four Sawed Pleurothallis [refers to the serrate margins on the petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador in shady, wet tropical forests at elevations around 150 to 500 meters as a miniature to just small sized, hot growing epiphyte with occasionally prolific, slender, erect to hanging, elongate, terete ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, dark purple suffused, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a loose, distichous, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
Synonyms Acianthera quadriserrata (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 253 Dodson 1980 drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera quadriserriata; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo good; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera quadriserrata photo fide; Phytotaxa 422 (3) Zambrano & Solano 2019 photo fide;
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