Pleurothallis aspergillum Luer & Hirtz 1989 Subgen Scopula Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Rough Lip Pleurothallis [refers tothe brushlike tuft of hairs at the apex of the leaf]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 750 to 800 meters as a miniature sized, deciduous leafed, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-linear, acute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate that blooms at any time of the year on a fascile of successively single flowered, [2/5" [1.2 cm] long inflorescence arising from a spathe.

Synonyms Colombiana aspergillum (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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