Forty-one flowers and three buds emanating from a conduplicate spathe 0.5cm wide x 1.5cm long, dry, brown from 44 narrowly cordate-ovate leaves to 4cm wide x 14cm long, coriaceous, dull green with maroon margins, ramicauls 0.2cm wide x 29cm long, terete, green, grown on a 39cm diameter plant in 8.5-cm clay pot of sphagnum moss; sepals and petals red-burgundy, margins pubescent; dorsal sepal 3-veined, obtuse; lateral sepals fused, obtuse, rounded apex, margins recurved, four-veined; petals spathulate; lip dark crimson-burgundy, subtriangular-trilobed, apex rounded, minutely erose, verrucose; column 0.2cm wide x 0.2cm long, ovary 0.1cm wide x 1cm long, chartreuse, ribbed longitudinally; pedicel 0.1cm wide x 1cm long, pale chartreuse; substance firm; texture waxy; species distributed from Costa Rica to Ecuador; ID by SITF ______________________.

Mark:
Got a CBR & CCM 88 pts today on this Pleurothallis.
Do you think it is diabolica???
Got it from Ecuagenera.
Bryon

Beautifully grown! Congrats on the CCM 88 pts.

No, this is Pleurothallis (Acronia) peculiaris that is distributed from Costa Rica to Ecuador. I had to check though, since, yes, it is similar to P. diabolica, a Colombian species. I've attached a comparison of Luer's drawings as a pdf.

Mark

Mark Wilson, Ph.D.
(he, him, his)

Dept. of Organismal Biology and Ecology
Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre
Colorado Springs
CO 80903