Pleurothallis trichophora Lindl.1858 SUBGENUS Antilla Luer 2000 Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Three Haired Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in central Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic in shady or partially open places in montane rainforests from 900 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growqing epiphyte with ascending to pendent ramicauls enveloped to 2/3's the length by 4, scarious, conduplicate, carinate sheaths and carrying a single, apicaal, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute, green to greyish green and slightly rough above, green beneath, acute base into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 8, terminal, slightly pendent, to 8" [20 cm] long, successively 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence arising through a conduplicate sheath

Synonyms Antilla trichophora (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboltia trichophora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; LATER EARLY Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 P>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------