Pleurothallis veliformis Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Francisco Tobar and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Veiled Pleurothallis [refers to the pendent branching habit]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 1650 meters as a small sized, cool, pendent-scandent growing epiphyte with slender, pendent, proliferating new from the apex ramicauls enveloped by a clsoe tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a loose, arising through a spathe, pendent, 2.8 to 3.8" [7 to 9 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorecence with shorter than teh pediecl floral bract.
Differs from others in the subsection by the long pendent, branching habit, the shorter than the leaf inflorescence, the large purple spots on the sepals, the narrowly linear petals and a three lobed lip with broadly rounded and concave lateral lobes and the midddle lobe has a slender bristle-like apiculum at the apex.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 194 Luer & Dalstrom 1996;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
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