Acianthera

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SITF confirms this plant as Acianthera verecunda (Mar 2025). This plant matches A. verecunda with slender, sturdy, purple stems, and thick red-purple leaves with a few fleshy flowers that has minutely denticulate spatulate petals, and a thick lip with a small pair of erect lobes below the middle. The plant fits the Luer drawing and description of A. verecunda (as Pleurothallis verecunda) in Selbyana, Vol. 3 No. 1/2 (1976), "Miscellaneous Species of Pleurothallis".

Name

Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 23

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1

Leaf Length: 11

Leaf Width: 2.5

Leaf Margin: entire

Leaf Shape: acute elliptical

Leaf Petiole Length: 4.5

Pseudobulb Length: 13.5

Pseudobulb Width: diameter 0.2 cm

Pseudobulb Margin: terete

Pseudobulb Distance: 1.5

Pseudobulb Root Tip: green

Inflorescence Overall Length: 2.5

Inflorescence Arrangement: alternate

Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 1

Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 0.3

Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 0.2

Floral Bracts Length: 1.4

Floral Bracts Width: 0.6

Ovary Length: 0.3

Ovary Width: 0.15

Ovary Shape: crenate

Ovary Color: burgudy

Ovary Texture: crystalline

Flower Natural Spread Length: 1

Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.7

Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.7

Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4

Lateral Sepals Length: 0.7

Lateral Sepals Width: 0.3

Petals Width: 0.2

Judging Center: Montreal

Award Number: 20256900

Award Date: January 18, 2025

Awarded As: CBR

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