Pleurothallis notabilis Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Noteworthy Pleurothallis [refers to the unusual leaves and Inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, terete, stout ramicauls with a close, tubular sheath above the middle and a loose tubular sheath at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, thickly coriaceous, nervose, sulcate along the veins, broadly obovate, convex, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the thickened, channeled subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a dense arising at the base of the leaf, fascile of radiating in all directions, up to 30, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"The broad, obovate, convex leaves are thin and sulcate along the veins. Numerous short, few flowered racemes radiate simultaneously from the base of the leaf. The dorsal sepal is concave in the lower third abd narrowly acuminate above. The synsepal is narrow and flat, the petals are narrowly attenuate and the lip is small, ovate and recurved ,similar tothe lip of P ruscifolia." Luer 1998
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia 14: 162 Luer & Excobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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