Pleurothallis asymmetrica (Kolanowska & Szlachetko) Karremans, 2021

Karremans, Adam P., Rojas-Alvarado, Gustavo, Bezerra-Silva, Luiz Eduardo, Flores-Rojas, Jeffrey, Murillo-Murillo, Jose Martín, Romero-Ceciliano, Marysol & Segura-Bermúdez, Oscar A., 2021, Nomenclatural notes in the Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): miscellaneous part II, Phytotaxa 496 (2), pp. 134-146 : 135

Pleurothallis asymmetrica (Kolanowska & Szlachetko) Karremans , comb. nov. ( Fig. 3 )

Basionym: Crocodeilanthe asymmetrica Kolanowska & Szlachetko (2020: 108-109) .

Notes:— This species was said to be “easily distinguishable from all other representatives of the genus by asymmetric flowers, completely fused, glabrous lateral sepals fused unequally with the dorsal sepal and linear-lanceolate petals prominently thickened in the apical half” and indeed that is the case because this is not a species of Stelis subgen. Crocodeilanthe but rather a member of Pleurothallis . The completely fused, glabrous sepals, lanceolate petals that are apically thickened and lack of inflated basal bracts on the ramicaul are unlike any species of the former but common in the latter.

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FIGURE 3. Holotype of Crocodeilanthe asymmetrica at AMES. Showing the illustration attached by the authors (A) and the original specimen (B) © copyright Harvard University, Cambridge.