Pleurothallis truncata Lindl. 1837 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Truncatae Luer 1986 Photos by © Jay Pfahl Photo by Nick Doe
Photo by David Morris
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Common Name The Truncated Pleurothallis
Flower Size 1/8" [.33 cm]
Found in Ecuador at altitudes of 1700 to 3000 meters as a medium to large sized, caespitose, cool to cold growing epiphytic and sometime lithophytic species with elongate, terete, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another 2, one at the middle and the other below the middle and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute, attenuate to the short conduplicate base leaf that blooms on a 1 or more, apical, racemose, 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence arising from a small spathe and holds the successive opening flowers tight against the mid leaf all occuring in the winter and spring.
SynonymsHumboldtia truncata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia truncata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Orbis truncata (Lindl.) Luer 2005; Pleurothallis corazonica Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as P ornata photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 1 1993 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 2 2000 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Orbis truncata; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 3 2008 photo; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #1 2011 photo fide; Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 photo fide;
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