Pleurothallis claudii Rchb.f. ex Dod 1978 SUBGENUS Rhynchopera [Kl.] Luer 1986
Drawing by Donald Dod
Common Name Claud's Pleurothallis [Mr Claud Richard - French Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the Dominican Republic at elevations around 1300 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 2.4 to 4.8" [6 to 12 cm] long including the [1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long peduncle, loose, secund simultaneously few flowered inflorecence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul with an oblique, acute, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the small habit with an unusually small spathe. A few flowers similar to, and about the same size as those of P loranthophylla are borne in a loose, erect raceme. Most distinctive is the petals that are longer than the sepals. Above a membraneous, elliptical lower third, the petals are contracted into a long, subulate, terete apex." Luer 1998
Synonyms Rhynchopera claudii (Rchb.f. ex Dod) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Moscosoa 1: 3:57 Dod 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 117 Szlach & Marg. 2001 as Rhynchopera claudii;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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