Pleurothallis micklowii Luer & R.Vásquez 1981 SUBGENUS Rhynchopera [Kl.] Luer 1986

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Common Name or Meaning Micklow's Pleurothallis [American Discoverer of species later 1900's]

Flower Size .1" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 1000 to 1450 meters as a small sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 at the base sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-oblong, acute, the base cuneate into the twisted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 3, slender, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul through a foliaceous spathe, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, loose, distichous, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts .

The smallest member of the subgenus Rhynchopera is endemic to the Amazonian basin of Bolivia and has a thick, ovoid, concave lip that is affixed to the column foot.

Synonyms Rhynchopera micklowii (Luer & R.Vásquez) Szlach. & Marg. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 49: 211 Luer & Vasquez 1981;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bolivia Ibisch & Vasquez 2000 drawing fide;

Polish Bot. J. 46: 118 Szlach & Marg. 2001 as Rhynchopera micklowii;

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