Pleurothallis fugax Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859 Photo by © Ron Parsons and his Picasa Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Fugaceous Pleurothallis [refers to the short-lived Flower]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a fascile of weak, filiform, pendent, .6 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] long, sucessively single, few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and carrying non-resupinate, ephemeral flowers.

Synonyms Acronia fugax (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia fugax

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