Pleurothallis miranda Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Mirandia Luer 1986 TYPE for the SUBGENUS
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Unusual Wonder Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, loose, ribbed sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, contracted and twisted into a bent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a capillary, 1/2 to 1" [1.2 to 2.4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by an erect spathe arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Mirandopsis miranda (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Mirandopsis Miranda; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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