Pleurothallis caymanensis C.D.Adams 1971 SUBGENUS Proctoria Lindl. 1842
Photos by © Frank Roulstone
TYPE Drawing by © C D Adams
Drawing of Proctoria Caymanensis
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Cayman Pleurothallis
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands in semideciduous forests at low elevations, generally in vegetation on limestone as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, shortly repent lithophyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, thickened, rigid, yellowish green and verrucose on the upper surface, green and rough beneath, ovate to broadly elliptic to suborbicular, acute, acuminate to apiculate, crenulate to erose margins, cuneate below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2, arising through a basal spathe, terminal, ascending, .4 to 2" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, successsively 1 to 2, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with thin, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
" The shortly creeping rhizome produces erect, short ramicauls with thick caniculate-concave, acuminate-apiculate leaves that are far surpassed by the slender peduncle of the inflorescence." Luer 2006
Synonyms Proctoria caymanensis (C.D.Adams) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 6: 146 C.D. Adams 1971 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide;
as Proctoria caymanensis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematic of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2006 as Proctoria caymanensis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematic of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2006 as Proctoria caymanensis drawing fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 183 Karremans 2016 as Acianthera caymanensis
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