Pleurothallis tiarata Luer & Hirtz 2004 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by © Gilberto Merino and The Blue Nanta Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Turban Pleurothallis [refers to the deeply concave uppermost synsepal]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls provided with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, loose, pendent, slender, arcuate, to 1" [2.5 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bract and carries a non-resupinate flower.
"Distinguished by the narrowly elliptical, sessile leaves and a short, arching, 2 to 3 flowered raceme. The deeply concave, suborbicular synsepal is uppermost, with short, oblong petals within the margins. The lip is suborbicular, apiculate and acutely deflexed below the stout column." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
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