Pleurothallis helleri A.D.Hawkes 1966 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Photos by Bogarin and © Epidendra and the Epidendra Website
TYPE Drawing by A D Hawkes and Epidendra Website
Common Name Heller's Pleurothallis [Nicaraguan Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Chontales department of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Los Rios province of Ecuador at elevations around 200 to 800 meters as a small to large sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout, elongate ramicauls enveloped by one below the middle and by 2 to 3 close tubular sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, nervose, acute to slightly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to several, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, simultaneously opening, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with oblique, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Similar to P ruscifolia but it has glomerate to fasciculate inflorescence while the new species has up to 20 flowers on each of the multiple rather elongate racemes." A D Hawkes 1966
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 14(1): 12-14, t. 8. A.D. Hawkes 1966 Drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 233 Dodson 1980 drawing ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1110 Hamer 1984 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis helleri;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok;
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