Pleurothallis aporosis Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by Andy Phillips
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Poor Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Azuay province of southern Ecuador in highland scrub at elevations around 2000 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose terrestrial with erect, stout ramicauls with a sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below to the narrowly rounded sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on 1 to 3, arising from a spathe at the base of the leaf, erect, 1.2" [3 cm], 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with infundibular, just longer to much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
This species has a tall habit with narrowly elliptical leaves and carries a few, erect, inflorescence carrying single flowers, or short 2 flowered racemes of brown, non-resupinate flowers with a broadly rounded, minutely denticulate lip with a featrureless disc except for a basal glenion.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986;
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