Pleurothallis angustisepala Ames & Correll 1942 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo by © Arturo Carillo

Common Name or Meaning The Narrow Sepal Pleurothallis

Flower Size 3/8" [8mm]

Found from Chiapas, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala on the gulf slope in wet montane rainforests and elfin forests at elevations of 800 to 1350 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, with 2 internodes, dilated and slightly compressed towards the apex ramicaule enveloped basally by tubular, funnel-shaped sheath and carrying a single, apical, arcuate to pendant, sessile, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate apically, gradually narrows below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of simultaneous, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence holding the distichous flowers close to the apex of the ramicaul.

Synonyms Acianthera angustisepala (Ames & Correll) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 2 Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera angustisepala; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 501 Hagsater, Soto 2003 as Acianthera angustisepala drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo;

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