Pleurothallis correllii Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Website.
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name Correll's Pleurothallis [American Botanist and describer of species current]
Flower Size 1/4" [6mm]
Occuring in Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico at elevations around 800 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms on a short, apical, fasciculate, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and holding the flowers close to the leaf base and has a unpleasant odor and can occur at most any time of the year.
Differs in others in the Section Acronia by the triangular lip held outward a significant distance below the column by a foot that is longer than the shaft of the column.
Synonyms Acronia correllii (Luer) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis pansamalae var. triangulabia Correll 1947; Zosterophyllanthos correllii ( Luer ) Szlach. & Marg. 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia correllii drawing fide
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