Pleurothallis imitor Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
Drawing by © Atwood and The Epidendra Orchid Website
LATER 
Common Name The Imitator Pleurothallis [refer to it's similarity to others in Section Macrophyllas-fasciculatae]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a fascile of 1 to 2, arising from the base of the leaf, .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"With the cordate leaf and a basal, abbreviated inflorescence it appears to be a member of SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae, but the flowers are produced either singly or successively in a 2 flowered raceme. The ovate, acute dorsal sepal and the synsepal are similar. The petals are falcate-oblong, acute and three veined. The lip is sagittate and acute with a reflexed basal claw between erect, acute, basal angles." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia imitor (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 78. Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia imitor;
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