Pleurothallis cocornaensis Luer & R. Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
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Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Cocorná Pleurothallis [A town In Antioquia Colombia]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2100 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, eret ramicauls with a loose, tubular sheath above the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, shortly acumiante, cuneate below into the stout, slightly twisted petiolate base leaf that can bloom in the spring and summer on numerous, subtended by a broad spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long overall, congested, simultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carrying, non-resupinate, flowers that have a fragrance reminiscent of moldy socks.
"Distinguished from P imraei by the taller stature and the mass of flowers produced in numerous, short racemes. The flowers are non-resupinate and shortly pubescent instead of long-pubescent within. The floral parts are similar but the lip is sharply arcuate with a markedly verrucose apex." Luer 2000
Synonyms Effusiella amparoana Luer 2007; Specklinia cocornaensis (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 2004; Stelis cocornaensis (Luer & R. Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 45 Luer & R. Escobar 1996 Drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 4 2000 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:262 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis cocornaensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia cocornaensis; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Effusiella cocornaenisis; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as Stelis cocoraensis;
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