Pleurothallis tuzae Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Tuza Pleurothallis [Mines in Antioquia where the species was collected]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1500 to 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tight, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms on a few, suberect, simultaneous, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously and laxly few flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has an infundibular floral bract.

"Distinguished by the narrowly elliptical, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on a lax, few flowered raceme of flowers with long-pointed petals and a three lobed lip resembling P tectosa. The inner margins of the lateral lobes are flattened like roof over the ovate, flat, acute middle lobe that is longer than the lateral lobes.” Luer 1999

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología Vol 21 #2 pg 132–134, Luer 1999 drawing; 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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