Pleurothallis penduliflora Kraenzl. 1905 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
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Drawings by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Pendant Flower Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2200 to 2800 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, spreading, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute, rounded to subcordate basally leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on 1 to 5, arising through a spathe at the leaf base, erect to arching to pendant, subcongesteed, distichous, simultaneously racemose, 7.2" to 12" [18 to 30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with a tubular, as long to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
”Characterized by long, stout ramicauls carrying large cordate leaves and blooms with long, relatively large flowered racemes of either yellow or purple flowers. The middle sepal and the cucullate-uppermost sepal are acute, the petals are narrowly linear and the lip is tri-lobed with the lobes broadly subfalcate.” Luer 1999
CAUTION Use caution with this one! I cannot be sure of the veracity of this determination although it does match Luer's drawings
Synonyms Pleurothallis aves-seriales Luer & R.Escobar 1981; Pleurothallis diffusa var. grandiflora (C.Schweinf.) C.Schweinf. 1956; Pleurothallis semipellucida var. grandiflora C.Schweinf. 1951
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 1: 177 Kraenzl. 1905;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959 as P diffusa var grandiflora;
Fieldiana, First supplement to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 as P aves-seriales drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as P aves-seriales photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = P pendulifera;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo good;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo good;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide
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