Pleurothallis SUBGENUS Physothallis (Garay) Luer 1986
Characterized by coarse, thick leaves and ramicauls and has a long slender peduncle of successive erect flowers arising through an annulus below the abscission layer. The dorsal sepal is deeply connate to the laterla sepals which are less deeply connate teach other. All three apices are similar and free. The elongate column has a hoded anther and ventral stigma.
TYPE for the SUBGENUS
!Pleurothallis neoharlingii Luer 1986
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