Pleurothallis cachabensis Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Cachabi Pleurothallis [A Community in Ecuador]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a large sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by tubular sheaths above the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a loose, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, pendent, weak, 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a longer than the pedicel floral bract and carries non-resupinate flowers.
"Similar to P corunalis but differs in the short, drooping raceme of pale rose, non-spotted, transluscent flowers. The synsepal is deeply concave, the large protruding petals are fimbriate and the lip is transversely oblong and minutely fimbriate with a pair of erect, basal horns." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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