Pleurothallis ramificans Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The Branching Pleurothallis [refers to the proliferating habit]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nariño department of southwestern Colombia and Imbabura, Carchi, Pichincha, Cotopaxi and Napo provinces of Ecuador in wet montane or cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold, scandent growing epiphyte with slender, ascending to erect, proliferating ramicauls enveloped below by tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring, summer and fall on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, congested, slender, 2.4 to 6" [6 to 15 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, just shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
”Similar to P antennifera but differs in the prolific, lang-scandent habit and the smaller and shorter lateal lobes of the lip.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 371 Luer 1980
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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