Pleurothallis galerasensis Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Mt. Galeras Pleurothallis [A volcano in southernmost Colombia]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nariño department of Colombia at elevations around 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, scandent, ascending epiphyte with approximate below, proliferating above, stout to slender, erect to suberect ramcauls with a loose tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, slender, arising through a foliaceous spathe with an annulus, 4 to 8.8" [10 to 22 cm] long, secund, simultaneously densely many flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the prolific habit of the ramicauls, below the ramicauls are ascending and approximate, above they proliferate from within the spathe of the uppermost ramicaul. One to three slender, secund racemes far surpass the elliptical, petiolate leaves. The racemes and another ramicaul are subtended by a foliaceous spathe. The sepals are connate below the middle, pubescent within, the dorsal sepal concave and acute, the lateral sepals recurving and acute, The petals are three veined, the lip is oblong with a pair of low calli below the middle." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe galerasensis (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis galerasensis (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:263 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis galerasensis;
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 galerasensis
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