Pleurothallis lenae Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Lena's Pleurothallis [Mrs Dalstrom Co-discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 2200 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramciauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, deeply cordate and sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a suberect, arising through a spathe, subdense, 13.2" [to 33 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence with an infundibular, as long as the pedicel floral bract and carries flowers that smell of cucumbers.
"Distinguished by the long, stout ramicauls carrying a large, cordate leaf and a long many flowered inflorescence. The dorsal sepal is broadly ovate, the synsepal deeply concave, the petals are narrowly ovate, and the lip is large and 5 lobed, and clasps the column. It differs from P pendulifera in the broader 3 veined petals and an acutely genuflexed lip." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 165 Luer & Dalstrom 1996 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide;
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