Pleurothallis roseola Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Franscisco Tobar and his Flickr Orchid photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The German Measle Pleurothallis [refers to the reddish spots on the flower]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Sucumbios and Napo provinces of northeastern Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1850 to 2850 meters as small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, cordate ovate, acute, acuminate, acuminate, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 to 4, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, erect, 6 to 10 [15 to 25 cm] long, simultaneously subdensely many flowered inflorescence with an as long as to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
”Similar to the smaller, more common P penduliflora but differs in the suborbicular lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
**Lindleyana 11: 183 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
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