Pleurothallis giraldoi Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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Photo by Alejandro Calderon Gonzalez
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Giraldo's Pleurothallis [Colombian co-discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department in southwestern Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 1900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath in the lower third and 2 more at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, broadly cordate-ovate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, deeply cordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a reclining, arising through a suberect, conduplicate spathe at the base of the leaf, completely enveloping the peduncle, .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, successively single to 5 flowered inflorescence and has tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Differs in its large broadly ovate, deeply cordate base leaf and carrying a large suberect spathe giving rise to a purple flower with broad rounded sepals, oblong and denticulate petals and a lip that is prominently convex at the apex with the sides of the basal thirds revolute.
CAUTION The determinations above are correct, Luer described the orchid as single-flowered but has been found to be up to 5 flowered
Synonyms Acronia giraldoi (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos giraldoi (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak, Richardiana 6: 134 (2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia Vol 21 #2 1999 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia giraldoi
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia giraldoi drawing fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo not - does not have thickened pad at lip apex;
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