Pleurothallis sannio Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Common Name or Meaning The Jester Pleurothallis [refers to the odd flower]
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Choco Colombia at elevations around 2500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a closely adpressed, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, horizontal, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile and deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on fascile of short, within the spathe, successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a suberect spathe with thin, tubular floral bracts.
Synonyms Acronia sannio (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia sannio
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