Pleurothallis macrantha L.O. Williams 1941 SUBGENUS Dracontia Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

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Common Name The Large Flowered Pleurothallis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1900 to 2600 meters in oak forests as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose tubular sheaths and another below the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, sessile leaf that is cuneate below into the base that blooms on a lightly flexuous, distantly few flowered, 6" [15 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with a thin floral bract

Synonyms Dracontia macrantha (L.O.Williams) Luer 2004; Stelis cylindrata Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2002; Stelis macrantha (L.O. Williams) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998;

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