Pleurothallis steyermarkii C.Schweinf. 1951 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
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Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Steyermark's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Collector in Venezuela 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Tachira state of northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, pendent, 4.4" [11 cm] long, including the 1.2" [3 cm] long peduncle, loosely several flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Vegetatively similar to P lindenii but differs in the distinctly 3-lobed lip with an acutely triangular anterior lobe while the obliquely oblong basal lobes surround the column." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fieldiana, Bot. 28(1): 185 C Schweinfurth 1951;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;
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