Pleurothallis parviflora Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Plant and Flowers in situ Napo Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Sucumbios, Carchi and Napo provinces of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1800 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, arising through a spathe, erect, dense, 3.2 to 6.4" [8 to 16 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence and has a tubular, as long as the pedicel floral bract.
”Characterized by the slender ramicauls carrying narrow, acute leaves and a longer raceme of numerous tiny flowers. The sepals are obtuse and mostly less than .12” [3 mm] long, the petals are narrow and acute and the tri-lobed lip is prportionally large and when expanded is about as wide as the sepals are long.“ Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 369 Luer 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
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