Pleurothallis infundibulosa Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Funnel Pleurothallis [refers to the large prominent floral bracts]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Santander department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 to 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, stout, sublax, distichous, arising through a foliaceous spathe from the apex of the ramicaul, 8" [20cm] long including the 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with a large, funnel shaped, conspicuous, infundibular, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the large habit, a sessile, ellipitcal leaf, a large foliaceous spathe and an erect inflorescence with large, funnel-shaped floral bracts that enclose the pedicel, ovary and basal portions of the flower. The inconspicuous flowers with barely parting sepals are held erect within the floral bracts. The petals are broad and convex with the apex retuse. The lip is proportionally small with the apex bilobed, and the usual calli within the margins near the midddle." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe infundibulosa (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis infundibulosa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 210. Luer 1996. Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:263 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis infundibulosa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Crocodeilanthe infundibulosa;
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