Pleurothallis aporosis Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by Andy Phillips
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Poor Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador in highland scrub at elevations around 2000 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with erect, stout ramicauls with a sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below to the narrowly rounded sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on 1 to 3, erect, 1.2" [3 cm], 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe at the base of the leaf.
This species has a tall habit with narrowly elliptical leaves and carries a few, erect, inflorescence carrying single flowers, or short 2 flowered racemes of brown, non-resupinate flowers with a broadly rounded, minutely denticulate lip with a featrureless disc except for a basal glenion.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;
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