Pleurothallis simulans L.O.Williams 1940 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis Subsection Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 Photo by © Bogarin and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Plant and Flower Photo by © Mark Wilson
Common Name The Simulating Pleurothallis [refers to the column and lip's resemblance to Stelis in the Authors eyes]
Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]
Found in Panama around 900 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused below, narrowly elliptical, acute, sessile, narrowly cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slender, .35" to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and carries a non-resupinate flower.
Synonyms Acronia simulans (L.O.Williams) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos simulans (L.O.Williams) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinae Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia simulans
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