Pleurothallis pendens Dod 1977 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000
TYPE Drawing by © Donald Dod
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Pendent Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Dominican Republic at elevations around 1650 to 1950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, more or less held horizontally ramicaul enveloped below the middle by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect in relation to the ramicaul, coriaceous, margin minutely crenulate-denticulate, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a pendent, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, distichous, non-flexuous, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long including the slender 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long peduncle, distantly and successively several flowered inflorescence with oblique, dilated, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P quisqueyana with similar flowers but the new specis is distinguished by the habit producing single flowers successivly in a flaccid, non-flexuous, pendent raceme of distantly spaced flowers." Luer 2000
Synonyms Antilla pendens (Dod) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Moscosoa 1: 2:49 Dod 1978 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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