Pleurothallis micklowii Luer & R.Vásquez 1981 SUBGENUS Rhynchopera [Kl.] Luer 1986
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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 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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