Pleurothallis quaternaria Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
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Photo by the Niessen's and their Orquideas del Valle Website
Common Name The Four Part Pleurothallis [refers to the nearly equal sepals and petals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca Colombia without locational data as a small sized epiphyte with slender, erect, round in cross-section ramicauls enveloped basally by a close, tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, sessile, ovate, acute, braodly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of solitary, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successive flowered inflorescence arising through a prostrate spathe from the base of the leaf.
Synonyms Acronia quaternaria (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia quaternaria; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 9 2007 as Acronia quaternaria photo fide
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