Pleurothallis garayana (Ospina) Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia SUBSECTION Scopula in ed.
Photo by © M Ospina and The Epidendra Website
Original TYPE Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Garay's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Botanist current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Choco departments of Colombia at elevations of 2000 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-linear, acute, narrowly cuneate and long decurrent into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of a few, arising through a spathe from just below the apex of the leaf, .2 to .36" [5 to 9 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Differs from others in the subgenus by the broadly bilobed lip." Luer 1989
Synonyms *Colombiana garayana Ospina 1973
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideología 8: 232. Ospina 1973 as Colombiana garayana drawing/photo fide;
* Selbyana 1: 90. Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
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