Pleurothallis quisqueyana Dod 1977 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000
TYPE Drawing by © Donald Dod
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Quisqueyana Pleurothallis [the indigenous name for the Dominican Republic]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in western Dominican Republic at elevations around 1800 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped below the middle by 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect in relation to the ramicaul, coriaceous, minutely crenulate-denticulate margined, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on a pendent, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, loose, subflexuous, distichous, slender, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long including the .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3, few flowered inflorescence with oblique, dilated, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"The elliptical leaves are minutely denticulate, the raceme is distantly few flowered, subflexuous ti straight, often becoming more than twidce as long as the leaf. The dorsal sep-al and synsepal are fleshy and subcarinate, the laterals forming a conspicuous mentum with the column foot, the petals are membraneous and narrowly acute and the proportionally veruy small blade of the lip is suborbicular and bicallous and with an equally as long, narrowly attenuate claw. Allied to P trichophora bit it is distinguished by themore or less erect racemes and flowers without a prominent mentum and a proportionally larger lip with a shorter broader claw. P quisqueana differs from P pendens by producing in succession 2 to 3 flowers simultaneously, while the more distantly spaced flowers of P pendens are produced single in an eventually longer raceme." Luer 2000
Synonyms Antilla quisqueyana (Dod) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Moscosoa 1: 2:51 Dod 1978 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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 2004as Antilla quisqueyana;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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