Pleurothallis taurus Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by Orchidees en Nord - S.F.O. Section Nord Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Bull Pleurothallis [refers to the long-Horned Lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia and Sucumbios province of Ecuador in shady, wet tropical montane forests at elevations around 2700 to 3200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, long scandent epiphyte with prolific, erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2 basal, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer on an arching to pendant, arising through a reclining spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence with tubular, longer than the pedicel.
”Similar to P ramificans and P saltatoria in the prolific, climbing habit and the flowers are similar to P hippeocrecia. Differs in the middle sepal and synsepal being acute and slightly acuminate and the petals that are narrowly linear. The basal lobes of the lip curve forward and are narrowly linear and considerably longer than the midlobe.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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