Pleurothallis conochila Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Dracontia Luer 1986Photo by © Weil Dreissen and His Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Type Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name The Conical Lipped Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 700 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin tubular sheath below the middle and 2 shorter sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the subsessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, to 8.8" [to 22 cm] long, subflexuous, distantly, successively several flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe with 1 to 3 flowers open at any one time

Synonyms Dracontia conochila (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis conochila (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; *Lindleyana 11(2): 75, f. 14. 1996 Luer drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Dracontia conochila

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