Pleurothallis nasiterna Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
THROUGH MID 
Common Name or Meaning The Watering Pot Pleurothallis [refers to the synsepal shape]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found Sucumbios, Carchi and Napo provinces of Ecuador and Nariño department of Colombia at elevations around 2700 to 3100 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by close fitting, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to ovate, obtuse, acuminate, narrowing below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer through mid fall on 1 to 3, erect to arching, arising through a reclining spathe a the leaf base, 4 to 9.6" [10 to 24 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long, peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by its large habit, sessile leaves and a few long racemes of small, yellow green flowers. Most distinctive is the deeply concave, obtuse synsepal with the apex contracted into a narrow, spout-like tip. The lip is three lobed with the middle lobe obtuse but acuminate into an apiculum." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49: 212 Luer 1981;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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