Pleurothallis tectosa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Roofed Pleurothallis [refers to the margins of the lip appearing as a roof]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later fall on a few, arising a spathe at the base of the leaf, erect, 5.2 to 8.8" [13 to 22 cm] long including the 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, simultaneously densely many flowered inflorescence with as long to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Easily distinguished by the long-subulate petals and alip with an ovate, shortly acuminate, deeply concave midlobe more or less inflated beneath the oblong, lateral lobes whose inner margins meet in the midline to form a roof over the cavity of the middle lobe." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 187 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
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