Pleurothallis fastidiosa Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Rhynchopera [Kl.] Luer 1986 TYPE for the SUBGENUS
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TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Delicate Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 mm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru on felled trees in wet montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes at altitudes of 500 TO 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte and sometime terrestrial with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, apical, elliptical, acute, petiolate leaf which blooms on a long, apical, arching, several flowered, simultaneously opening inflorescence arising from a long spathe with an annulus that holds the flowers longer than the leaves and occurs in June.
Synonyms Rhynchopera fastidiosa (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #10 2018 photo fide;
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