Pleurothallis flaveola Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Yellow Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador on roadbanks and in wet forests at elevations of 720 to 1500 meters as a small to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and terrestrial with stout, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on as fascile of numerous, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to successively 2 [sometimes simultaneously 3] flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul.

Similar to P chlorolueca which it shares its location but this one differs in the smaller yellow flowers, shorter, acute, non-acuminate sepals, shorter petals and a smaller lip with the deflexed part acute [not broadly truncate and apiculate like in P chloroleuca].

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia feuilletii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia feuilletii drawing fide

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