Pleurothallis dressleri Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dresslera Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Flower Closeup Photo by © Tuang Luong and His Terra Gallery Website

Common Name Dressler's Pleurothallis [American Botanist in Central America current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Panama as an epiphyte on mossy limbs at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to a single, globose to ovate, green with white reticulation, apiculate, abruptly narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, [6mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a bract at the base and a tubular, acuminate floral bract carrying a giant flower.

Synonyms Areldia dressleri (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis dressleri; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Areldia dressleri; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Areldia dresslerii drawing fide;

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