Pleurothallis circinata Luer 1996
SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Photo by Sebastian Viera and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Curled Pleurothallis [refers to the rolled up lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia at elevations of 2050 to 2450 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base and blooms in the winter and spring on lateral, arising from a spathe near the apex of the ramicaul, congested fascile, peduncle .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, rachis .08 to .16" [2 to 4 mm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence and has inflated, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Closely related to P ruscifolia but differs in the narrowly ovate leaves, flowers borne in short, one to three flowered racemes, broader concave sepals and a lip strongly revolute into a trnasverse tube fixed tothe base of the column." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 206 Luer 1996 drawing fide;
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