Pleurothallis roseola Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Franscisco Tobar and his Flickr Orchid photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The German Measle Pleurothallis [refers to the reddish spots on the flower]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in northeastern Ecuador in montane forests at elevations around 1850 to 2850 meters as small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, cordate ovate, acute, acuminate, acuminate, cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 to 4 erect, 6 to 10 [15 to 25 cm] long, simultaneously subdensely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
”Similar to the smaller, more common P penduliflora but differs in the suborbicular lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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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