Pleurothallis talpinaria Rchb. f. 1886 SUBGENUS Talpinaria [Karst] Luer 1986
Side View in situ Cundinamarca
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photos by Mark Wilson, Eric Hunt and Dale Borders
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Common Name The Talpinaria Pleurothallis [refers to the genus that this species was originally described]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found at least in Venezuela and Colombia as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 450 to 3000 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and one below the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse petiolate leaf that is cuneate below into the petiole and blooms in the spring summer and fall on a short, arising from an ascending spathe, apical, successively single flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract and holding the flower at mid-leaf.
This species is similar to both P jostii and P trimeroglossa.
Synonyms *Talpinaria bivalvis H. Karst. 1859
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora 69: 554 Rchb.f 1886;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as P trimeroglossa;
Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:166 Schlechter 1924;
AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P trimeropetala drawing hmm;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 6:12 2003 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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