Pleurothallis atrohiata Dod 1989 SUBGENUS Elongatia Luer 1986
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Dark Opening Pleurothallis [Refers to the dark interior of the flower]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Haiti on the Massif de la Hotte at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, shortly repent epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, otuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, slender, 2.8" [7 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, loose, simultaneously 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising through a slender, erect spathe at the apex of the ramicaul with a tubular as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
P deutrodriessenii is most closely related to the Hispaniolan P atrohiatus Dod, but P deutrodriessenii is distinguished by narrower sepals and a lip that is only indistinctly trilobed.
Synonyms Elongatia atrohiata (Dod) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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 Elongatia atrohiatus;
Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173 to 196 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer & Lisa Thoerle 2013 ;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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