Pleurothallis tonduzii Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer

Higher elevation variety 2000 metersPhotos by © Daniel Jimenez

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Common Name or Meaning Tonduz's Pleurothallis [Central American Orchid Collector]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Peru? in cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with thick ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, lanceolate, subfalcate, cordate, attenuate to the 3 dentate apex leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a successively single flowered fascile arising from a triangular spathe.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 195. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1483 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia tonduzii; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006 photo; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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