Pleurothallis manicosa Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Sleeved Pleurothallis [refers to the dilated sheaths on the ramicaul]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2400 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold, caespitose growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, broad, dilated, tubular sheaths and another near the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly cordate, obtuse, acuminate, basally sessile leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of several, erect, arising from a broad, foliaceous spathe at the leaf base, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, simultaneously opening, many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a slender, ovate, concave, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Although vegetatively this species is reminiscent of subgenus Crocodeilanthe because of the greatly dilated sheathes and large spathe, the flowers of this species are typical of those of section Pleurothallis. The inflorescence is very similar to that of P. penduliflora and P. hippocrepica with several simultaneous racemes of many flowers produced in a fascicle. The synsepal is concave within which the three-lobed lip is held. The middle lobe is acuminate, and the lateral lobes are broadly falcate." Luer & Escobar 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 66. Luer & R. Escobar 1996 Drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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