Finding

SITF confirms this plant is Acianthera boliviana (Aug 2023). This plant matches the description of Acianthera boliviana in Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI. Flower size at .4 cm is within range of the described (IOSPE) size of .5 cm and the photos are a close match. It matches the line drawing in the IOSPE of A. boliviana (as Pleurothallis boliviana). The flowers of A. boliviana and A. tricarinata are very simliar; but the bracts of A. tricarinata are larger and long enough to cover the entire ovary and extend well out onto the dorsal sepal; whereas, in A. boliviana and this flower, the bracts are much shorter and only partially cover the ovary. This plant also closely matches the flowers of A. boliviana in the OW.

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1

Leaf Length: 6.1

Leaf Width: 0.9

Leaf Margin: smooth

Pseudobulb Root Tip: green

Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center

Award Number: 20233566

Award Date: April 15, 2023

Fifty-eight flowers borne on seven erect, distichous, compressed, simultaneously few flowered inflorescences up to 11.7-cm arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf with narrowly acute, conduplicate floral bracts; leaves apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subconduplicate, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base 0.9-cm in diameter by 6.1-cm in length; flowers generally translucent yellow overlaid orange; sepals lanceolate translucent yellow overlaid orange marginally; petals highly reduced, acuminate, translucent overlaid orange distally; lip oblong involute, proximally yellow overlaid brown; column pale green overlaid yellow distal one-half, anther cap yellow; ovary enveloped partially in floral bract ridged longitudinally, light green, 0.1-cm x 0.4-cm; substance firm; texture waxy; species from Bolivia; ID by SITF ________________; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI, pages 18, 84.This is a test of private and published blogs.

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