Pleurothallis helleri A.D.Hawkes 1966 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986

Plant and Flowers Photos by Bogarin and © Epidendra and the Epidendra Website

Common Name Heller's Pleurothallis [Nicaraguan Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 200 to 800 meters as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, stout, elongate ramicauls enveloped by one below the middle and by 2 to 3 close tubular sheaths below and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, lanceolate, nervose, acute to slightly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to several, simultaneously opening, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul with oblique floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 233 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1110 Hamer 1984 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok;

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