Pleurothallis tuzae Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Tuza Pleurothallis [Mines in Antioquia where the species was collected]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1500 to 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tight, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms on a few, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, suberect, simultaneous, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously and laxly few flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the narrowly elliptical, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on a lax, few flowered raceme of flowers with long-pointed petals and a three lobed lip resembling P tectosa. The inner margins of the lateral lobes are flattened like roof over the ovate, flat, acute middle lobe that is longer than the lateral lobes.” Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 21 #2 pg 132–134, Luer 1999 drawing fide;
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