Pleurothallis languida Luer & R.Escobar 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Acroniae Luer 1988
photos by © The French Orchid Society, Northern Section Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Drooping Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia without elevational data as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a long, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, distantly, distichous, arising through a spathe, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the arching pedicel floral bracts.
"It belongs somewhere between SUBSECTION Acroniae and SUBSECTION Longiracemosae, but because of the proportionally long pedicels it belongs here. The flowers droop on long, arching pedicels in an erect, distantly flowered raceme so that they are non-resupinate. The middle sepal and synsepal are similarly concave below the middle and acuminate and recurved above the middle. The petals, nearly equally long, are narrowly falcate, denticulate below the middle and curved upward. The lip is ovate, concave and obtuse." Luer 1998
Synonyms Acronia languida (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 21 #1 Luer & Escobar 1998 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia languida
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