Pleurothallis tanyae [Luer & Cornejo] in ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Drawing by © Luer and The Epidendra Website

LATER

Common Name Tanya's Pleurothallis [Tanya Montenegro Ecuadorian Cocollector of the species current]

Flower Size

Found in Napo province of Ecuador in wet premontane forests at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, pendent, triquetrous ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a pendent, arising on top of the leaf through a spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, rachis .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long, simultaneously 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with oblique, shorter than to as long as the ovary floral bracts and glabrous flowers with pale yellow suffused with purple below the middle sepals, transparent petals and a purple lip.

"Characterized bythe caespitose habit, pendent ramicauls with elliptical-ovate leaves about as long, and 1 to 3 muchg shorter racemes of a few, yellow and purple gaping flwoers. The dorsal sepal is oblong and the synsepal is elliptical. The petals are acute with microscopically erose margins and the acute lip with erect, rounded margins below the middle is very similar to P fernandezii." Luer 2011

Synonyms *Acianthera tanyae Luer & Cornejo 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 16(2): 313 Luer 2011 as Acianthera tanyae Drawing fide;

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