Pleurothallis scoparum Rchb.f 1888 SUBGENUS Scopula Luer 1986
Photo by © Piotr Markiewicz
Photo by Kopf Orchids
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © Carl Luer.
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Common Name The Broom-Like Pleurothallis [refers to the positioning and appearance of the inflorescnece on the leaf]
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Colombia and Azuay, El Oro and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador, at elevations around 400 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped basally by a single tubular sheath with another just above the base carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on shortly-erecrt-arching, arising from a fugacious spathe fascile of successive single, few flowered inflorescence that arises almost at the apical end of the leaf with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Readily distinguished by the pink spotted flowers with a shaggy-fimbriate lip." Luer 1989
Synonyms Colombiana scoparum (Rchb. f.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora 71: 153 Rchb.f 1888;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 258 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Colombiana scoparum;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo good;
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