Pleurothallis trimeroglossa Schltr.1921 SUBGENUS Talpinaria [Karst] Luer 1986
Photo by Eric Hunt
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Photos by Wiel Driessen, Mark Wilson and Marcos Salas Guerrero
Photos by Mark Wilson, Eric Hunt and Dale Borders
Photo by Wiel Driessen/ Drawing by © C A Luer
Common Name The Thrice Split Tongue Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found most likely in Ecuador, Junin and Amazonas departments of Peru and Bolivia without locational data as a miniature sized epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender ramicauls carryijng a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising through an erect spathe, single flowered inflorescence .with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract and holding the flower at mid-leaf.
Similar to P talpinaria and P jostii.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 78 Schlechter 1921;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 as Synonym of P talpinaria;
LANKESTERIANA 17(2) Wilson 2017 drawing/photo fide
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