Pleurothallis sphaerantha Luer, Selbyana 1(3): 292, fig. 81 (1975).
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| Pleurothallis sphaerantha Luer, Photo by Kevin Holcomb |
its native range is Ecuador.
Latin Name:
Pleurothallis sphaerantha Luer,
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
Acronia sphaerantha (Luer) Luer
Zosterophyllanthos sphaeranthus (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak
English Name:
The Sphere-Shaped Pleurothallis (refers to the flower).
Description:
With suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2 basal sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading, thickly coriaceous, rigid, ovate, deeply cordate and sessile base leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter on a fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence enclosed by a spathe at the base of the leaf and has thin, tubular floral bracts.
Distribution:
Ecuador.
Ecological:
In shady, wet tropical montane forests at elevations around 500 to 1100 m as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the late fall and winter.
Flower size:
5.0 mm.
Cultivation:
Climate: Cool
Air Circulation: Medium
Light: Medium
Humidity: High
Fertilizer: Weekly.
Typus:
Collector Team:
S.Wilhelm,C.A.Luer, G.M.Luer 486
Type Herbaria;
holotype SEL
Distribution Of Types:
Pastaza (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/203614-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:203614-2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurspharantha.htm.
https://www.ecuagenera.com/Pleurothallis-sphaerantha/en
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