Pleurothallis tiarata Luer & Hirtz 2004 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986 Photo by © Gilberto Merino and The Blue Nanta Website

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

Common Name The Turban Pleurothallis [refers to the deeply concave uppermost synsepal]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, loose, pendent, slender, arcuate, to 1" [2.5 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and carries a non-resupinate flower.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;

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