Pleurothallis cornejoi [Luer] in ed. SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

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Common Name or Meaning Cornejo's Pleurothallis [ Curatorial Assistant of the NY Botanical Garden and Co-collector of the species current]

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Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevaations around 700 meters as a smnall sized, warm growing , shortly repent epiphyte with slender, pendent, triquetrous ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 at the abse and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceouis, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate to obtuse below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on 1 to 3, erect, arising on top of the leaf through a spathe a the base of the leaf, peduncle .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, rachis 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm] long, congested, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple flowers.

"A repent species characterized by pendent ramicauls with slightly longer, acute, narrowly ovate leaves and 1 to 3 shorter, distichous racemes of purple gaping flowers. The dorsal sepal is narrowly oblong and the synsepal is ovate and expanded. The petals are acute with microscopically serrulate margins and the lip is acute with erect, rounded margins below the middle." Luer 2011

Synonyms *Acianthera cornejoi Luer 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 311 Luer 2011 drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera cornejoi photo fide

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