Pleurothallis scabrilinguis Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website
Common Name The Scabrous Lipped Pleurothallis [refers to the labellum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia Ecuador and Peru at elevations around 1500 to 3300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep banks with slender, erect, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath on the lower half and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, rigid, thickly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a fascile of .05 to .15" [1 to 3 mm] long, successive, single, resupinate flowers arising through a spathe and has thin, tubular floral bracts
Synonyms Acronia scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Luer 2005; Humboldtia scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Kuntze1891; Zosterophyllanthos scabrilinguis (Lindl.) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia scabrilinguis drawing good lip shorter in photo
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