Pleurothallis poculifera Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Spout-Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia without elevational data as a small to medium sized epiphyte with erect, slender, terete ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, loose, spicate, laterally compressed, to 1.4 to 2.4" [3.5 to 6 cm] long including the slender peduncle, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

"Characterized by the elongate ramicaul carrying an ovate, sessile leaf that blooms on a few flowered raceme about as long as the leaf carrying short pedicellate, non-resupinate, little flowers with comparitively large, entiure, three veined petals and an ovate, concave lip witha pair of rounded calli above the base." Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología 14(2): 166. Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide; 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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