Pleurothallis flaveola Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Photos by © Rudi Gelis and The I Naturalist Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Yellow Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha, Azuay and Esmeraldas provinces of Ecuador on roadbanks and in wet forests at elevations of 720 to 1500 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte and terrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a dense, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, a fascile of numerous, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to successively 2 [sometimes simultaneously 3] flowered inflorescence with half as long as the pedicel floral bracts..
Similar to P chlorolueca which it shares its location but this one differs in the smaller yellow flowers, shorter, acute, non-acuminate sepals, shorter petals and a smaller lip with the deflexed part acute [not broadly truncate and apiculate like in P chloroleuca". Luer 1998
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 159 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
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