Pleurothallis grandis Rolfe 1918 SUBGENUS Dracontia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez ©
Photo by Denis Deralu and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website.
Common Name The Large Pleurothallis [refers to the size of the plant]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a medium to giant sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped below the middle by a loose, tubular sheath and 2 shorter sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute to subacute, sessile, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 16 to 23.2" [40 to 58 cm] long, subdense, secund, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a small spathe at the apex of the ramicaul
Synonyms Dracontia grandis (Rolfe) Luer 2004; Stelis alta Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002; Stelis grandis (Rolfe) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera 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 grandis; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 as Dracontia grandis photo fide;
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