Pleurothallis talpinarioides Garay & Dunst. 1976
SUBGENUS Restrepioidia Luer 1986
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Drawing by Luer
Common Name The Talpinaria-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Tachira state of Venezuela at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, close, one long, one short, tubular, brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, shiny green, revolute margins, tridentate apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short to 1" [2.5 cm], arising from a compressed, red-brown spathe at the base of the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Named for the mistaken belief that this species is similar to P talpinaria but P talipinarioides is really similar to P tentacula. Also closey related to P nuda. P talipinarioides differs in the smaller habit with smaller flower. Instead of the leaves being cuneate and sessile to subsessile the leaves are petiolate with the petiole more or less twisted." Luer 2000
Synonyms Lindleyalis talpinarioides (Garay & Dunst.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6:368 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing 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 Lindleyallis talipinarioides;
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