Pleurothallis pachyglossa Lindl. 1840 SUBGENUS Dracontia SECTION Dracontia Luer 1986
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Drawing of P conanthrea by Reichenbach f.
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Common Name The Broad-Tongued Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica in lower montane rain forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, caespitose, warm to cool growing epiphytic, rarely terrestrial species found from with stems that are enveloped with tubular bracts carrying a single, shortly petiolate, elliptic, acute leaves and blooms in late winter and early spring on an apical, subflexuous, 10" [25 cm] long, racemose, longer than the leaves, successively single, few to several flowered inflorescence with cucullate-amplexicaul, acuminate, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
This species has many similarities to P tuerkheimii but differs in the successively flowered, fractiflex inflorescence that is much shorter.
Synonyms Dracontia pachyglossa (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboldtia pachyglossa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia conanthera [Rchb.f] Kuntze 1891; Humboltia pachyglossa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia conanthera [Rchb.f] Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia pachyglossa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis conanthera Rchb.f 1900; Pleurothallis formosa Schlechter 1912; Pleurothallis sapillifera Rolfe 1916; Stelis guerrerensis Soto Arenas & Solano 2014; Stelis pachyglossa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: Misc. 68. Lindl. 1840;
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3:41 Reichenbach 1881 as P conanthera;
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3:41 Reichenbach 1881 as P conanthera drawing fide;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia conanthera;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668. Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia platyglossa;
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3:106 Reichenbach 1892
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3:plate 259 Reichenbach 1892 drawing fide;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10(251-253): 291. Schltr. 1912 as Pleurothallis formosa drawing fide;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 105. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P conanthera;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1482 Atwood 1985 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:265 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis pachyglossa;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Dracontia pachyglossa;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater etal 2005 as Stelis pachyglossa photo good;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Stelis platyglossa photo ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 as Dracontia platyglossa photo fide;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Suarez 2012 photo not = P pansamalae;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Suarez 2012 photo as P pansamalae fide;
Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, B, 113 Illustrations and Studies io Neotropical Orchidaceae. 3. On the identity of Dracontia pachyglossa aod D. ramonensis; with a new species, D. lueriana (Pleurothallidinae Karremans 2012 drawing/photo fide as Dracontia pachyglossa;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Stelis pachyglossa photo fide;
Phytotaxa 158: 255 Soto Arenas & Solano 2014 as Stelis guerrerense;
Phytotaxa 257 (3) 242 © Doucette & Portilla 2016 as synonym of Stelis guerrerense;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Stelis pachyglossa photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Dracontia pachyglossa
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