Pleurothallis scintillata Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Sparkling Pleurothallis [refers to the flower]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago, Azuay and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 2100 to 3000 meters as a miniature to just medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial on roadbanks with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate-elliptical, acute, narrowly subcordate-cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf, subcongested, 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.
” Characterized by the long, slender ramicauls carrying narrow leaves and a raceme of purple flowers that seem to glisten. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are acute, the petals are thick and narrowly triangular and the lip is transversely dumbell-shaped, acutely revolute at the middle snd with the sides broadly rounded.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49: 216 Luer 1981
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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