Pleurothallis henniae Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
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TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Henni's Pleurothallis [Director of Stockholm Botanical Garden and Cocollector of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1850 to 2150 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a close fitting sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, pendent, 3.2 to 4.4 [8 to 11 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, loosely several flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the very narrowly elliptical, sessile leaf carrying a pendent raceme of several, simultaneous,, purple flowers that are small for the subsection. The deeply cordate lip is obtuse with basal lobes that embrace the column. The disc is subverrucose with a pair of low, subacute calli at the base." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
