Pleurothallopsis tubulosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
Photo by © The Northern French Orchid Society
Photo by Spiro Kasomenakis
Photo by Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Judy Carney
Drawing of Restrepiopsis tubulosa
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Small Tube-Forming Pleurthallopsis [Apparently in reference to the spathe]
Flower Size 3/16" [5 mm]
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as well as Venezuela in scrub forests and cloud forests at elevations of 1025 to 3200 meters and is a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 8, brown, imbricating, ribbed tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, subacute to obtuse leaf with the base cuneate into a petiole that blooms in the spring on asuccession of solitary flowers borne in a fascile of peduncles, 1.2" to .24" [3 to 6 mm] long that arise from near the apex of the ramicaul.
The photo above is an extreme form of P tubulosa, both in shape, proportions and coloration, to show the extreme variation but if you compare the basal upfolded lobe of the lip to Luer's tpye drawing, the shape is exact to his drawing.
Synonyms Humboldtia viridula (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia tubulosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia viridula (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis caliensis Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis flavescens Schltr. 1923; *Pleurothallis tubulosa Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis viridula Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallopsis tubulosa (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Restrepiella tubulosa (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1966; Restrepiella viridula (Lindl.) Garay & Dunst. 1966; Restrepiopsis tubulosa (Lindl.) Luer 1978; Restrepiopsis viridula (Lindl.) Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P caliensis; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 151. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Pleurothallis flavescens; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing not = R striata; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 Restrepiella viridula drawing ok; AOS Bulletin VOl 36 #9 1967 as Restrepiella tubulosa; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing not = R striata; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as R viridula drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Restrepiella tubulosa not = R striata; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Restrepiella viridula drawing ok; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis tubulosa drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Pleurothallopsis tubulosa; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Restrepiella tubulosa drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #1 2011 photo not = P striata; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 as Restrepiopsis tubulosa photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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