SUBGENUS Psuedostelis [Schltr.] Luer 1998
Characterized by the caespitose to shortly repent habit with well developed ramicauls that are generally longer than the leaf and gives rise to an erect, terminal inflorescence arising from the base of a narrowly cuneate to sessile leaf. The flowers are basically similar and usually resupinate and the dorsal sepal is free and the lateral sepals are free from each other at least above the base. The small petasl are simple and entire. The lip is small, ovate to oblong and more or less concave. The base of the lip is truncate, shallowly concave at the end and attached to an abbreviated column foot. The semiterete column is generally short, wingless and edentate and the anther and stigma are apical to subapical in position.
TYPE for the SUBGENUS
!Pleurothallis bracteosa C.Schweinf. 1970
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