Pleurothallis kateora (Garay) Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photos by Gilberto Escobar
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Who Knows Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia at unknown elevations and locations as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte with a branching rhizome giving rise every .4 to 4/5" [1 to 2.2 cm] a stout ramicaul enveloped by 2 oblique, compressed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single pendant, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a short, arising from an oblique spathe, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Similar in habit to P calypso amd P portilloi with the long, pendent chains of overlapping, elliptical leaves with large, loose, compressed sheaths of the ramicauls and rhizome. The tubular flowers protrudes from the margin of the spathe, compressed and inflated as are the eheaths. The sepals are deeply connate into a broad, cylindrical tube. Out of sight are the acute petals and an ovate lip with small, erect, uncinate marginal lobes." Luer 2007
Synonyms Apoda-prorepentia kateora (Garay) Luer 2004; *Physothallis kateora Garay 1974
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideología 9: 133. Garay 1973 as Physothallis kateora photo fide;
* Phytologia 49: 209 Luer 1981;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Apoda-prorepentia kateora;
Icones Pleurothallidiane A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Apoda-Repnetia Vol XXIX Luer 2007
Icones Pleurothallidiane A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Apoda-Repnetia Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera kateora photo fide
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