Pleurothallopsis striata (Luer & R. Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
Photos by Jay Pfahl all in situ in Cundinamarca Colombia
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Lined Pleurothallopsis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia and Ecuador in scrub cloud forests at elevations of 2400 to 2750 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 5 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear-elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the base and blooms in the later spring on a succession of single flowers arising in a fascile near the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms *Restrepiopsis striata Luer & R. Escobar 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as R tubulosa drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as R tubulosa drawing good; Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 as Restrepiopsis striata drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Restrepiopsis striata drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Pleurothallopsis striata; Orchid Digest Vol 75 #1 2011 as P tubulosa photo fide;
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