Pleurothallis pulcherrima Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Very Beautiful Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an arching, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, slender, pendent, lax, 2.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the ovate, sessile, cordate leaf and a raceme about equally as long. The sepals are green with large red-brown spots instead of stripes and the petals are proportionally large and heavily spotted. Except for its much smaller size the lip is similar to others but with the basal lobes longer and encircling the column." Luer 1999
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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