Pleurothallis queremalensis Rinc.-Useche, Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo/TYPE Drawing by L. Rodríguez-Martínez & C. Rincón-Useche
Common Name The Queremal Pleurothallis [A town in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia on the eastern side of the Cordillera Occidental in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, thin, cylindrical ramicauls enveloped by 2, loose, papyraceous, basal bracts and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, apex emarginate, mucronate, the margins shortly revolute, purple on the apical half of the adaxial surface and the whole abaxial surface, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a racemose, pendulous due to the weight of the flowers; peduncle 1.6" [4 cm] long, cylindrical, 2" [5 cm] long overall, simultaneous, with at least two flowered inflorescence with loose, acute, longer than the ovary floral bract and carrying non-resupinate flowers
"Pleurothallis queremalensis belongs to Pleurothallis sect. Pleurothallis subsect. Macrophyllae-Racemosae Luer 1999, of which Pleurothallis lindenii Lindl. is probably the most representative species. The novelty is closely related to Pleurothallis cachabensis Luer & Hirtz, P. cajamarcae Schltr. and P. tiarata Luer & Hirtz, but the most closely related species is probably P. phratria. Pleurothallis queremalensis can be distinguished from the latter by the narrowly ovate dorsal sepal (vs. elliptic), the red, lanceolate petals with the margins serrulate (vs. purple, linear-oblong and margin entire), and the suborbicular, non-apiculate lip (vs. cordate, apiculate)." Rodr.-Mart & Karremans 2017
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* LANKESTERIANA 17(2): 257 Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 photo/drawing fide;
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