Pleurothallis bahorucensis Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bahoruco Pleurothallis [A mountain of the Dominican Republic]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic at elevations around 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, presumably erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths below the middle and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, minutely crenulate-denticulate margined, narrowly linear-oblong, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on an arching to pendent, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, including the slender peduncle ,4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, lax, distichous, flexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has oblique, dilated, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Antilla bahorucensis (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XX Luer 2000 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as Antilla bahorucensis; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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