Pleurothallis somnolenta Luer 1996

SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphigyne Luer 1998 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Sleeping Pleurothallis [an allusion to the gaping nodding flowers]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Choco' Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, slightly acuminate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a congested, fascile of .68 to .72" [1.7 to 1.8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising through a thin spathe at the base of the leaf.

Synonyms Acronia somnolenta (Luer) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia somnolenta

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