Pleurothallis solomonii (Luer) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia solomonii by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning Solomon's Pleurothallis [Dr James Solomon American Botanist at Missouri Botanical Garden current]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations aroumd 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte with stout, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base carrying a single, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile, cordate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a short .08" [2 mm] long peduncle hidden within the reclining spathe .6 to .68" [15 to 17 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular floral bract and carrying fleshy flowers with no colors recorded.

”This species confined to northeastern Bolivia is vegetatively similar to all those species characterized by a spreading, narrrowly ovate leaf, this species is distinguished by the subacute sepals with the dorsal sepal multiveined, oblong, denticulate petals, and a large elliptical lip that is shallowly concvavand flat between elevated margins.” Luer 2005

Synonyms *Acronia solomonii Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia solomonii drawing fide;

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