Pleurothallis poculifera Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Spout-Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the lip shape]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia without elevational data as a small to medium sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, terete ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising through a spathe, loose, spicate, laterally compressed, to 1.4 to 2.4" [3.5 to 6 cm] long including the slender peduncle, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
"Characterized by the elongate ramicaul carrying an ovate, sessile leaf that blooms on a few flowered raceme about as long as the leaf carrying short pedicellate, non-resupinate, little flowers with comparitively large, entiure, three veined petals and an ovate, concave lip with a pair of rounded calli above the base." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 14(2): 166. Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
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