Pleurothallopsis powersii (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001

Photo by © Eric Hunt

TYPE Drawing of Restrepiopsis powersii

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning Power's Pleurothallopsis [American Discoverer of Species 20th cen]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2050 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envloped basally by 4 to 7 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse leaf with the base cuneate into the petiole and blooms in the spring on a successively single flowered, fasiculate, 1/16" to 1/8" [3 to 7 mm]long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. This species has the largest flowers of the genus.

"The largest in the genus. The dorsal sepals contains 5 major veins and a pair of lesser veins. The middle lobe or the blade of the lip are widest at the broadly truncate apex is remarkable for the deeply wavy margin that is revolute near the middle. The basal lobes are proportionally small." Luer 1991

Synonyms Restrepiella powersii (Luer) Braas & H. Mohr 1982; Restrepiopsis powersii Luer 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis powersii drawing fide; Natve Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Pleurothalliopsis powersii

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