Pleurothallis questionis Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Perplexae Luer 1999
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Questionable Pleurothallis [refers to the uncertain subsection this species is in]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2050 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, suberect to erect ramicauls enveloped below a thin tubular sheath in the lower half and 1 to 2 others about the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, more or less horizontal, coriaceous,narrowly ovate, acute, subcordate to rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a loose, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, secund, slender, reclining in the sulcus of the leaf, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously 4 flowered inflorescence with a thin, infundibular, as long as the ovary floral bract.
"A member of the SECTION Pleurothallis by virtue of the short column with an exposed, apical anther, a transeverse, apical stigma and connate lateral sepals. This species is not accomodated in any of the recognized SUBSECTIONS. The small to medium sized habit with ovate, subcordate, horizonatal, sessile leaves suggests Acronia, but differing from all subsections, the petals are entire and subfalcate or scimitr shaped, thickened at the base and with acute apices. Also the deeply trilobed lip with a large, thick, erect callus across the lower third of the sic is not seen in any other subsection." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 10: 79. Luer & Escobar 1996 drawing fide;
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