Pleurothallis pulvinaris Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Coloborquideas
Photo by © Luis Perez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl
Photo by Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Luer
Common Name The Cushion-Like Pleurothallis [refers to the cushion-like callus on the labellum]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 2350 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls carrying a close tubular sheath below the middle and two more at the base and carrying an apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the elongate slender petiolate leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, arching, 3/4 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
”Characterized by the narrowly elliptical, shortly petiolate base leaf bourne by a long slender ramicaul. One to two, short, drooping, simultaneously two flowered racemes are bourne in a short distance below the abscission layer. The sepals and petals are acute and spotted with purple. The lip is transversely three-lobes with tall, erect, triangular lateral lobes and a short, obtuse midlobe filled with a low, rounded, shallowly grooved callus.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia Vol 16 No 2 1984 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo not = Eric Hunt's photo
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