Pleurothallis thoerleae (Luer) J.M.H.Shaw 2016 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998

Drawing by © Carl Luer

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Common Name or Meaning Thoerle's Pleurothallis [American Botanist/enthusiast Lisa Thoerle current]

Flower Size 1.5" [4.2 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador without locational data as a miniature sized, caespitose growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped in the lower quarter by a tubular sheath with another at the base and carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, slightly acuminate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early winter on a slender, erect to suberect, arising from the base of the leaf with a spathe, peduncle 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying flowers with rose purple sepals, light yellow orange petals, and a light yellow lip.

" SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 contains several species with proportionately large flowers, the lateral sepals completely connate into a long, narrowly attenuate synsepal, with the similarly shaped petals varying from two-thirds as long to as long as the synsepal. Pleurthallis quadricaudata Schltr. and P tetrachaeta Luer share a triangular-sagittate lip with a narrowly acute apex, while the apical lobe of the lip of P. tipuloides Luer is narrowly triangular with a sharply acute apex. The lip of A. thoerleae is short and rounded, with an abruptly protruding apiculum. " Luer 2012

Synonyms *Acronia thoerleae Luer 2012

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer and Lisa Thoerle 2012 as Acronia thoerle drawing fide

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