Pleurothallis galeata Lindl. 1845 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photos by © A. Müller and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing of P quinquecallosa/P triane-venosa
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Helmut Pleurothallis [refers to the cucullate dorsal sepal]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia? in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 3400 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte and terrestrial on roadbanks and rock outcroppings with fasiculate, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, broadly ovate to elliptical, acute to subacute to obtuse, rounded to cuneate below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on a fascile of few to many, subtended by a broad spathe arising from an annulus, arching, 4.8 to 7.2" [12 to 18 cm] long, racemose, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Typically distinguished by stout ramicauls, large broadly ovate, long-petiolate leaves, a fascile of numerous, curving or disheveled, small flowered racemes nearly as long as or longer than the leaf and subtended by a conspicuous, foliaceous spathe. The dorsal sepal is concave, and the one veined petals are narrow. The three lobed lip has erect, obtuse lateral lobes near the middle that bear a callus on the inner surface of the anterior margin and an obtuse apex with a cushion-like callus. Leaf shape can be variable and for that reason many species were described as new that are now considered synonyms of P gleatea." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe galeata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboldtia fraterna (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia galeata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis fraterna Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis quinquecallosa Luer 1981; Pleurothallis sororia Schltr.1920; Pleurothallis trianaei Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis trinaei Schlechter 1924 mispell for trianaei; Pleurothallis venosa Rolfe 1906; Stelis galeata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 15: 107 Lindley 1845;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 3 Lindley 1859 as P fraterna;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia fraterna;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia galeata;
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1906: 30 Rolfe 1906 as P venosa;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 115 Schlechter 1920 as P sororia nom. illeg.;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P trianaei;
Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:12 Schlechter 1924 as P trinaei mispell for trianaei;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide to the quinquecallosa flower photo;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Phytologia 49: 214 Luer 1981 as P quinquecallosa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum III Systematic of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum III Systematic of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P quinquicallosa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:263 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis galeata;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
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 Crocodeilanthe galeata;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo not;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Stelis galeata photo fide
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