Pleurothallis elvirana Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1993 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Elvira's Pleurothallis [Mrs Elvira Cotton Distributed material during the Neblina Project]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela at elevations around 1250 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, obtusely cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 1 to 4, loose, arching, to 3.6"" [9 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the leaf base and has an infundibular floral bract.

"Characterized by the elliptical, acute, sessile leaf carrying pendent, loose racemes of yellow flowers. The sepals and petals are similar to others in the subsection but the lip is suborbicular with subacute basal lobes that embrace the column." Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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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