Pleurothallis parviflora Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Plant and Flowers in situ Napo Ecuador
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1800 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, erect, dense, 3.2 to 6.4" [8 to 16 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has a tubular floral bract.
”Characterized by the slender ramicauls carrying narrow, acute leaves and a longer raceme of numerous tiny flowers. The sepals are obtuse and mostly less than .12” [3 mm] long, the petals are narrow and acute and the tri-lobed lip is prportionally large and when expanded is about as wide as the sepals are long.“ Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;
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