Pleurothallis valvola Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothalls Luer 1986 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Shell Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the flower]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with close tubular sheaths above the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a dense fascile single flowered inflorescence arising through and concealed by a oblique, foliaceous sheath laterally from the ramicaul below the abscission layer and has a rose suffused floral bract.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide;

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