Pleurothallis sextonii Luer 2002
SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo by Wiel Driessen and his Facebook Page
Photo by the Niessen's and their Orquideas del Valle Website
Common Name Sexton's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia without collection data as a small sized epiphyte with stout, erectramicauls enveloped by a short, close, tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and sessile base leaf that blooms on a loose, distichous, 6" [15 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe and has athin, tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Acronia sextonii (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 24 Luer 2002 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 27 Luer 2005 as Acronia sextonii; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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