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Pleurothallis penicillata Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia SUBSECTION Scopula in ed. TYPE for the SUBSECTION

Plant and Flowers

Side View of Flower

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Painter's Brush Pleurothallis [Allusion to the fascile of inflorescence]]

Flower Size .1" [5mm]

Found in Nariño and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia on the western slopes of the western Cordillera in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 to 1840 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carryring a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, lightly acuminate, narrowly cuneate and long-decurrent below into the ramicaul that blooms in the winter and spring on shortly erect-arching, arising through a spathe held towards the apex of the leaf, in a fascile of .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, successive, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, leass than half as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Distinguished by the broader leaves and small, yellow, subglobiose flowers. The synsepal is deeply inflated. The lip is three-lobes with the midle lobe convex and acute, and with the basal lobes oblique." Luer 1989

Synonyms Colombiana penicillata (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 47: 57 1980;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 33 COS 1991 photo fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Colombiana penicillata;

Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide

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