Pleurothallopsis norae (Garay & Dunst.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Photo by © Ecuagenera and Their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing of Restrepiopsis norae
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Ellinor Dunsterville's Pleurothallopsis [American Orchid Collector in Venezuella]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, densly caespitose epiphytic species with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4, imbricating, ribbed tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, purple tinged, subacute leaf with the base cuneate into the subpetiolate base that blooms in the spring on a successively flowered inflorescence with solitary flowers produced in a fascile with more than one inflorescence arising out of the ramicaul and the nodding flowers are held at mid leaf. The very small solitary flowers are borne in a fascile of erect peduncles up to .4" [1 cm] long,
"Distinguished by the small ramicauls and equally long elliptical leaves." LUer 1991
Synonyms Restrepiella bicallosa (Luer & R. Escobar) Braas & H. Mohr 1982; *Restrepiella norae Garay & Dunst. 1976; Restrepiopsis bicallosa Luer & R. Escobar 1978; Restrepiopsis norae (Garay & Dunst.) Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Restrepiella norae drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Restrepiella norae drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis norae drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Pleurothallopsis norae; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 1 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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