Pleurothallis rutrifolia (Luer & Hirtz) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia rutrifolia by Carl Luer

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Common Name or Meaning The Spade-Like Leaf Pleurothallis [refers to the leaf shape]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Pinchincha province of Ecuador at elevations aroumd 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath on the lower fourth and 2 more at the base carrying a single, horizontal spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, long acuminate, sessile, deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a short, fascile of peduncles hidden within the fugaceous spathe successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying flowers with yellow microscopically ciliate sepals, yellow petals and a prone yellow lip.

”This species is another close relative of P bivalvis but is distinguished by the ovate, acuminate leaves and small flowers. Although the floral pattern is similarwith an ovate doral sepal, and a similar ovate synsepal, and oblong, denticulate petals, the lip differs with a broadly truncate base with a distinct, elevated glenion, a broadly concave disc with erect, denticulate margins and a thick callus beneath the apex.” Luer 2005

Synonyms *Acronia rutrifolia Luer & Hirtz 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

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

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