Pleurothallis hjertingii Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Hjerting's Pleurothallis [Danish Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cusco department of Peru at elevations around 2300 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, scandent epiphyte with spreading to erect, slender to stout, prolific ramicauls with distant tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the in the fall on a solitary, arising through a fugaceous spathe at the base of the leaf, erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long including the 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long peduncle, distantly several flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by its prolific habit, the large foliaceous spathe, the tall distantly several flowered inflorescence of comparitively large flowes. The synsepal is deeply concave, the petals are oblong and acute and the lip is trilobed with the lobes basal and broadly rounded." Luer 1999
Synonyms Pleurothallis lindenii var. longiracema C.Schweinf. 1953; Pleurothallis secunda var. longiracema (C.Schweinf.) C.Schweinf. 1955
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 12:48 Luer 1997 drawing fide;
Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003;
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