Pleurothallis scintillata Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sparkling Pleurothallis [refers to the flower]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2100 to 3000 meters as a miniature to just medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on roadbanks with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate-elliptical, acute, narrowly subcordate-cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, subcongested, 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf with an infundibular floral bract.

” Characterized by the long, slender ramicauls carrying narrow leaves and a raceme of purple flowers that seem to glisten. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are acute, the petals are thick and narrowly triangular and the lip is transversely dumbell-shaped, acutely revolute at the middle snd with the sides broadly rounded.” 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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