Pleurothallis imber-florum Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Shower of Flowers Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia at elevations 2000 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, arching, 5.6 to 14.4" [14 to 36 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.
"Distinguished by the long, arching raceme of small spotted flowers. The uppermost synsepal is deeply concave, the margins of the petals are shortly and irregularily fimbriate and the broadly ovate lip has a pair of small, conical calli near the deflexed base." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 16(2): 167. Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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