Pleurothallis gomezii Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Photo by © Species Identification Task Force Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Gomez' Pleurothallis [Colombian Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Risaralda department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2100 meters small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped below by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to horizontal, coriaceous, ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, broadly cuneate to subcordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring on 1 to 2, subtended by a spathe, shorter than and reclines on the leaf, loose, distichous, 4.4 to 5.2" [11 to 13 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with thin, infundibular, as long to longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
Similar vegetatively to P phalangifera but with a shorter than the leaf inflorescence and considerably smaller flowers and P rowleei has similar flowers but this one has acuminate sepals and long-acuminate petals.
Synonyms Acronia gomezii (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 62. Luer & R. Escobar 1996 drawing/photo fide
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-FasciculataeLuer 2005 as Acronia gomezii
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