Pleurothallopsis renziana Kolan., Rykacz. & Szlach. 2020
TYPE Drawing by Kolanowska, Rykaczewski & Szlachetko 2020
LATER
Common Name Renz's Pleurothallopsis [Swiss Orchid Botanist and Collector 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Venezuela at elevations around 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong elliptic, widest near the middle, with a small apiculus at the apex, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a fascile of peduncle .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescencce carrying campanulate, yellowish appearing in the herbarium flowers.
"Characterized by the large size 10.4 to 12.8" (26 to 32 cm) tall; oblong-elliptic leaves up to 5.2" [13 cm] long and 1.2" [3 cm] wide near the middle; entire, oblong-elliptic petals which are widest in the basal third; obliquely linear-ovate lateral sepals; lip which is distinctly wider across lateral lobes than across middle lobe; convex basal part of lip; and by a pair of low calli extending from the lip lateral lobes base and an additional keel running along the central part of the lip." Kolanowska, Rykaczewski & Szlachetko 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Ann. Bot. Fenn. 57: 352 Kolanowska, Rykaczewski & Szlachetko 2020 drawings fide
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