Pleurothallis manicosa Luer & R.Escobar 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Sleeved Pleurothallis [refers to the dilated sheaths on the ramicaul]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 to 2400 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, broad, dilated, tubular sheaths and another near the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly cordate, obtuse, acuminate, basally sessile leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of several, erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, simultaneously opening, many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from a broad, foliaceous spathe at the leaf base and carries slender, ovate, concave, acute floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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