Pleurothallis cuzcoensis [Luer] ined. SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia cuzcoensis by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cusco Pleurothallis [A City in Peru]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Cuzco department of Peru at elevations around 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular below the middle carrying a single, suberect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, sessile, cuneate, very shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the late summer on a peduncle .04" [1 mm] long, totally concealed within a reclining spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, slightly shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"P cuzcoensis differs in the broad, elliptical, horizontal-ascending leaf that is cuneate basally. The three veined dorsal sepal and the synsepal are nearly equal in size and shape, narrowly ovate .64 to ..68" [1.6 to 1.7 cm] long, .22 to .24" [.55 to .6 cm] wide. The petals are narrowly ovate and .04" [1 mm] wide." Luer 2005

Synonyms *Acronia cuzcoensis Luer 2005; Pleurothallis juninensis var. cuzcoensis C.Schweinf. 1953

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cuzcoensis

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia cuzcoensis drawing fide;

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