Pleurothallopsis niesseniae (Luer) Luer 2010 Photo by © Ron Parsons

Common Name Niessen's Pleurothallopsis [Colombian Orchid Nurserywoman current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia without locality as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, brown, oblique, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, arising at the apex of the ramicaul, fascile of .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with as long as to just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Vegetatively the same as P tubulosa , the flowers ars well are similar other than the lateral sepals that are considerably shorter than the dorsal sepal. The most distinguishing feature id the lon-papillose ovary, a unique feature in the genus. The basal lobes of th lip are uncinate, similar to some of those seen in P tubulosa." Luer 2000

Synonyms *Restrepiopsis niesseniae Luer 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 as Restrepiopsis niesseniae Drawing fide; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010

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