Pleurothallis madsenii Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name Madsen's Pleurothallis [American Original Collector of Species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador at elevations of 2500 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold, prolific growing epiphyte with slender, erect, apparently only once superposed ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 thin, tubular sheaths above and below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf subcongested, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, simultaneoulsy many flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P ramificans but differs in the erect ramicuals with only one to two erect, superposed stems, shorter racemes and the flowers are much smaller and fleshy." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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