Pleurothallis tetrachaeta Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 P> Lip Detail
Photos by © Kevin Holcomb
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
EARLY 
Common Name The 4 Haired Pleurothallis [refers to the hair-like apices of the sepals and petals]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm] wide by 3" [7.5 cm] long
Found in Esmeraldas Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 750 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, suberect ramicaul enveloped close tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, subspreading, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, long mucronate, broadly cuneate to rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a fascile of 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising through a prostrate spathe at the base of the leaf
" SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 contains several species with proportionately large flowers, the lateral sepals completely connate into a long, narrowly attenuate synsepal, with the similarly shaped petals varying from two-thirds as long to as long as the synsepal. Pleurthallis quadricaudata Schltr. and P tetrachaeta Luer share a triangular-sagittate lip with a narrowly acute apex, while the apical lobe of the lip of P. tipuloides Luer Luer is narrowly triangular with a sharply acute apex. The lip of P. thoerleae is short and rounded, with an abruptly protruding apiculum." Luer 2012
Synonyms Acronia tetrachaeta (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 2005 as Acronia tetrachaeta
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