Pleurothallis uvifera Luer & R.Escobar 1983 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Grape-Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the globose flower]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Norte De Santander department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by a tubular sheath below the middle and another 1 to 2 at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly, coriaceous, oblong, acuminate, acute, cuneate below into the disitinct, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising through a slender spathe, .2" to .6" [.6 to 1.5] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a much shorter than the pedicel floral braactand carrying pendant flowers.
Distinguished by the single, pendent flower with a pair of calli on the disc of the lip and another on the basal lobes that surround the column and are clearly visible in the photo.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 drawing;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo fide;
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