Pleurothallis silverstonei Luer 1992 SUBGENUS Scopula Luer 1986
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Another Flower in situ Parque nacianal Tatama Choco Colombia 2300 meters 8/17
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Silverstone's Pleurothallis [Original Collector of species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia in dense primary cloud forests at elevations of 2400 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout, laterally compressed towards the apex ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 and another below the middle sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, shortly acuminate basally leaf that blooms winter, spring and summer on a dense fascile of numerous, single flowered inflorescence arising from the middle of the leaf
Synonyms Colombiana silverstonei (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Colombiana silverstonei
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