Pleurothallis chuscalica Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The El Chuscal Pleurothallis [refers to the location where the species was found]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Antioquia departemnt of Colombia at elevations around 2500 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on an arching, 1.2" [3 cm] long, lax few flowered inflorecence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf with an infundibular floral bract.

Similar to P lindenii but differs in the shorter racemes with smaller, greenish white flowers. The sepals and petals are not distinctive but the lip is small with the apex rounded, concave, minutely crenulate and apiculate. The calli are rounded and protuberant from the margins of the rounded sides below the middle." Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 21 #2 1999 drawing fide; 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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