Pleurothallis thysana Luer & J.J. Portilla 2001 SUBGENUS Didactylus Luer 2004
Photos by Marni Turkel
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website.
Common Name The Fringed Pleurothallis [refers to the petals and lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, coolgrowing epiphyte with slender, erect to horizontal ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a pendent to arching, flaccid, distichous, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence without a spathe and has a tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Acianthera thysana (Luer & J.Portilla) Karremans 2016; Didactylus thysana (Luer & J.J. Portilla) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Didactylus thysana; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Didactylus thysana; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera thysana photo fide
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