Pleurothallis platysepala Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © David Haelterman and his
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
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Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Another Flower? not = P lilijae???
Photo by © Arturo Carillo
Common Name The Broad Sepal Pleurothallis [refers to the dorsal sepal]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphytye with an erect, slender ramicaul with a close tubular sheath on the lower third and 2 others at the base and carrying, a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute, slightly acuminate, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile, arising through a narrow spathe, of successively single, few flowered inflorescence witha tubular, half as long or less than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the large habit with slender ramicauls that bear narrowly obovate leaves that are narrowly cunete below nto a sessile base. The red-brown, cellular-papillose flowers are comparitoely large with a broad, suborbicular dorsal sepal and a narrower synsepal Thepetals are denticulate and the lip is short and subquartate." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia platysepala (Schltr.) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis granularis Luer & R.Escobar 1984; Zosterophyllanthos granularis (Luer & R.Escobar) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 111 Schlechter 1920;
Figuren Atlas zu den Orchideenfloren de Sudamerikanishen Kordillerenstaten 1929 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing hmm;
Orquideologia Vol 16 No 2 1984 as P granularis drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Plerothallis Luer 1986 as P granularis;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as P granularis photo ok;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata= P platysepala;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia platysepala
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia platysepala drawing fide;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
Lankesteriana 18: 217-230 Wilson, Zhao etal 2018 photo fide
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