Pleurothallis ramificans Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The Branching Pleurothallis [refers to the proliferating habit]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southwestern Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane or cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold, scandent growing epiphyte with slender, ascending to erect, proliferating ramicauls enveloped below by tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring, summer and fall on 1 to 2, congested, slender, 2.4 to 6" [6 to 15 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, simultaenously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf with an infundibular floral bract.
”Similar to P antennifera but differs in the prolific, lang-scandent habit and the smaller and shorter lateal lobes of the lip.” 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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