Pleurothallis tanyrhina Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE Drawing by © Luer & Escobar and The Epidendra Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Long Snout Pleurothallis
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in dense forests at elevations around 2500 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erefct, slender, terete ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath around the middle and 1 or 2 more at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe, slender, erect, distichous, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence witha brown, broadly ovate, as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P divaricans and it's relatives but differs in the dorsal sepal and synsepal with recurved tips, acute petals, a concave lip with a shortly acute, recurved tip and a proportionally large red anther cap as well as the long, red- protruding rostellum." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
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