Pleurothallis magnifica Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986 TYPE for the SUBSECTION
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Magnificent Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia in the thick humus of mossy subparamo cloud forests at elevations around 3150 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing, caespitose terrestrial with stout, suberect ramicauls with a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, more or less arching, horizontal to pendent, coriaceous, obovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, flaccid, 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, loosely few flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
"Distinguished by several large, spotted flowers in a loose, flaccid raceme lie upon or hang over the edge of the more or less prostrate leaf, The uppermost synsepal is deeply cucullate over the lip which is transvese with broadly rounded sides and has a broad recurved apex." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia Vol 16 No 2 1984 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
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