Pleurothallis gonzaloi J.S. Moreno, Rinc.-González & Gal.-Tar 2022 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
LCDP Photo by © Sebastian Moreno /Varying forms photos by A & C; Sebastian Arango; Photo b: David Haelterman TYPE Drawing by © Sebastian Moreno and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 27, No. 2 New species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), a new country record, AND labellar morphology in the P. cardiostola-P. lilijae complex of subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Mark Wilson, Bruno Larsen, Juan Sebastián Moreno, Raven Ward, Joost A. G. Riksen,Luis Piña, Mario A. Sierra-Ariza, Marco M. Jiménez, Milton Rincón-Gonzalez, Robinson Galindo-Tarazona, Henry Garzón Suárez, and David Haelterman 2022
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Common Name Gonzalo's Pleurothallis [Colombian Gonzalo Cardona Molina “Burro, Burrito” an environmental leader 1966–2021]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia, Tolima, Cundinamarca and Caldas departments of Colombia at elevations around 3100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, yellowish green ramicauls provided with a tubular, truncated sheath and another tubular, narrow, truncate sheath below the middle, and carrying a single, apical, strongly coriaceous, horizontal to acutely deflexed, rigid, oblong, acuminate, curved up above the middle to the base, slightly cordate, forming two imbricate lobes below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring and earlier summer on a descending, short, arising from a reclined, prominent, lanceolate spathe, .06" [1.5 mm] long, usually single flowered inflorescence.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Pleurothallis gonzaloi is most similar to P. lanigera but is easily distinguished by the leaf shape (oblong-lanceolate versus broadly ovate in P. lanigera); leaf base (cordate, with basal lobes deeply reflexed in P. gonzaloi versus cordate, with basal lobes flat or occasionally slightly reflexed); the spathaceous bract (reclining in P. gonzaloi versus erect in P. lanigera); the position of the flower (resupinate in P. gonzaloi versus predominantly non-resupinate in P. lanigera); and the synsepal (glabrous in P. gonzaloi versus pubescent in P. lanigera)." J.S. Moreno, Rinc.-González & Gal.-Tar 2022
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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