Pleurothallis bogarinii Pupulin & J.D. Zúñiga 2007 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
TYPE Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by Franco Pupulin
Common Name Bogarin's Pleurothallis [Costa Rican Botanist at Lankester current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Limon province of Costa Rica at elevations around 400 to 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose-repent epiphyte with an erect, filiform ramicaul enveloped below the middle by a single, tubular, obliquely slightly dilated apically, minutely 5 nerved, papyraceous sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, sessile, narrowly elliptic, cuneate at the base, acute, emargiante, minuitely apicaulate abaxially leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a resting on the feal, arising through a membraneous, prostrate spathe, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, tightly concealing the pedicel floral bract.and carries a non-resupinate flower.
"Similar to P scaphipetala but differs in the narrowly elliptic leaves, the ovate synsepal, the smooth concave petals and the lip that is deeply cymbiform-boat-shaped." Pupulin 2007
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
* Orchids, Mag. Amer. Orchid Soc. 76: No 9 690 Pupulin 2007 Drawing fide;
Lankestriana 11(3): 185-205 Bogarin 2011 Photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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