Pleurothallis garciae Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © the Botanicka Zahrada Liberec Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name Garcia's Pleurothallis [Venezuelan Collector of Species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Carabobo state of Venezuela in montane forests at elevations of 300 to 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, long-repent epiphyte with slender, ascending, triquetrous, suberect ramcauls with a loose tubular sheath at the base and carrying a single, apical, more or less spreading, coriaceous, ovate, subacute to obtuse, sessile and shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the later summer arising and concealed within a spathe at the base of the leaf, in a fascile of short, single flowered inflorescence witha s long to shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Similar to P yauyauperyensis but differs in the broader shallowly cordate leaves, a larger solitary flower with a long-spathulate dorsal sepal, and a synsepal that is convex and pubescent above the middle. The lip is minutely serrate and the calli are smooth." Carl Luer 1999
Synonyms Acianthera garciae (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Venezuelan Orchid Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as P consimilis drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 as P consimilis Drawing fide = P garciae drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
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