Pleurothallis stricta Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988 TYPE for the SERIES
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photos courtesy of Joe Dougherty
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Straight Inflorescence Pleurothallis
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters as a miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute to subacute leaf that has a cuneate, sessile base and blooms summer and winter on an erect, loose, distichous, simultaneously opening, few to several flowered, 2 to 6 1/5" [5 to 16 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from a spathe and having thin, tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Acronia stricta (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia stricta; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide;
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