Pleurothallis veliformis Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Francisco Tobar and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Veiled Pleurothallis [refers to the pendent branching habit]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 1650 meters as a small sized, cool, pendent growing epiphyte with slender, pendent, proliferating new from the apex ramicauls enveloped by a clsoe tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a loose, pendent, 2.8 to 3.8" [7 to 9 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorecence arising through a spathe.
Differs from others in the subsection by the long pendent, branching habit, the shorter than the leaf inflorescence, the large purple spots on the sepals, the narrowly linear petals and a three lobed lip with broadly rounded and concave lateral lobes and the midddle lobe has a slender bristle-like apiculum at the apex.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;
