Pleurothallis discors [Luer & Toscano] in ed

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Different Pleurothallis [refers tothe lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, borne from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long overall, loose, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicels floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pabstiella discors Luer & Toscano, Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 371 (2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 16:371 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES and Combinations IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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