Pleurothallopsis mulderae (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

TYPE Drawing of Restrepiopsis mulderae by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Mulder's Pleurothallopsis [Dutch Female Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in northern Venezuela without locality information as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a fascile of a few, .2" [5 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from below the apex of the ramicaul.

"The lip is more or less pandurate in shape in three segments. The usual basal lobes of the basal segent are reduced to broad but low margins, the margins of the narrowed middle segment is expanded and suborbicular. The longitudinal calli on the disc are broad and separated by a midline sulcus." Luer 1991

Synonyms *Restrepiopsis mulderae Luer 1991

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis mulderae drawing fide;

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