Myoxanthus sarcodactylae (Luer) Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Myoxanthus SECTION Myoxanthus Luer 1992 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Fleshy Fingered Myoxanthus [refers to the thick floral segments]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 600 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, hispidulous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a congested, fascile, many .1" [1 to 2 mm] long, successive single flowered inflorescence arising at the apex of the ramicaul, with pubescent floral bracts and has 1 to 6 simultaneously open flowers .

Synonyms *Pleurothallis sarcodactylae Luer1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok;

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