Pleurothallis calvariola Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Little Skull Pleurothallis [refers to the synsepal]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cauica and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia and Carchi and Imbabura provinces of northern Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 3100 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a pendant, arising through a spathe below the base of the leaf, slender, [3 to 4 cm] long, few flowered, racemose inflorescence and has ainfundibular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P bicornis but differs in the lip that is acutely deflexed upon itself near the middle and the margins are entire. The flowers of P calvariola are smaller than those of the plant described as P silvestris but otherwise appear the same and therefore it is considered to be a synonym of P calvariola." Luer 1999
Synonyms Pleurothallis silvestris Luer & Hirtz 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol III Luer 1986;
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