Myoxanthus melittanthus (Schltr.) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Antennella Luer 1992 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

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Common Name The Honey-Bee Flowered Myoxanthus

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 2300 to 3000 as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with .4" [1 cm] between each slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 7 tubular, hispidous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a fascile of single, successive flowers arising at the apex of the ramicaul and has pubescent floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis melittantha Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:49 Schlechter 1924 as Pleurothallis melittantha; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Luer 1992 drawing fide;

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