Pleurothallis elvirana Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name Elvira's Pleurothallis [Mrs Elvira Cotton Distributed material during the Neblina Project]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela at elevations around 1250 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, obtusely cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 1 to 4, arising through a spathe at the leaf base, loose, arching, to 3.6"" [9 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the elliptical, acute, sessile leaf carrying pendent, loose racemes of yellow flowers. The sepals and petals are similar to others in the subsection but the lip is suborbicular with subacute basal lobes that embrace the column." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Novon 3: 118 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993;
Novon 3: 116 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993 drawing fide;
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