Pleurothallis lindenii Lindl. 1843 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Linden's Pleurothallis [Belgian Orchid Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Merida and Aragua states of Venezuela, Santander, Cundinamarca, Antioquia, Quindio, Caldas and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, Pichincha, Chimborazo, Loja, Azuay and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Cajamarca and Huanuco departments of Peru in wet, cold, cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3350 meters as a small to large sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial with slender, stout, erect ramicauls with a sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms at most anytime of the year on an arcuate then pendant, arising through a spathe, slender, laxly few to several flowered, racemose, 1.2" to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long inflorescence with an infundibular, as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by a slender to stout ramicaul carrying an acute, sessile leaf and one to a few, loosely flowered, arching racemes of purple striped flowers. From beneath the cucullate synsepal the elliptic petals protrude and diverge. The lip is cordate with the apex subacute to obtuse to entire. P bicornis which it is often confused is usually larger, the middle sepal is proportionally narrower, the pointed petals are in apposition or adherent and the apex of the lip which is broadly rounded and variously fimbriate.
Synonyms Humboldtia lindenii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis andrei Luer & R.Escobar 1996; Pleurothallis araguensis Ames 1922; Pleurothallis pendula Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos , Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855;
Schedul. Orch. 1: 9-10 Ames 1922 as P araguensis;
Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:51 Schlechter 1924 as P pendula;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing as P secunda = P lindenii fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Venezuela Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing as P secunda fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P pendula;
Orquideología 20: 34 Luer & R. Escobar 1996 as Pleurothallis andrei;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS pg 957 "D" 1998 photo ok;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol IV No. 1796 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo huh?;
Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 pg 284 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 290 photo not;
Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orquidelogia 2014 as P lindenii var xanthina photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo good;
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