Pleurothallis cleistogama Luer 1998 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986 Photo by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Self Fertilizing Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Panama at elevations around 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, more or less acuminate, acuminate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile of a few to several, simultaneous single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a spathe at the base of the petiole with thin floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide;

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