Pleurothallis discoidea Lindl. 1835SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard.

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Common Name The Disc-Shaped Pleurothallis

Flower Size 1/6" [4mm]

Found in Trinidad, Venezuela, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, wiry ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular, papery, evanescent sheaths all carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate, acuminate, tridentate leaf that becomes conduplicate towards the base and blooms on a sessile, sequentially single flowering inflorescence arising from a spathe in the fall in cultivation and summer in situ.

Synonyms Acronia discoidea (Lindl.) Luer; 2005 Humboldtia discoidea [Lindl.] Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis juninensis var. angustifolia C.Schweinf. 1951; Pleurothallis leptopetala Cogn. 1910; Pleurothallis mariae I.Bock 1985; Pleurothallis morrisii Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Pleurothallis scleropus Schltr. 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as P morrissii; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 P leptopetala; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 350 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing as Acronia discoidea

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