Pleurothallis verecunda Schltr. 1922 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by the Niessen's and their Orquideas del Valle Website

Common Name The Warty Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador at elevations of 70 to 550 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 2" [5 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence

CAUTION Does not jive with many refrences so use with caution!

Synonyms Acianthera verecunda (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1131 Hamer 1984 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 Drawing hmm; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------