Pleurothallis viridiflora Seehawer 1999
Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varella and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
LATE
THROUGH MID
Common Name The Green Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a mini-miiniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, membraneous, short-lived, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, faintly conduplicate leaf that blooms in the summer through mid fall on a 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence arisng through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide
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