Frondaria caulescens (Lindl.) Luer 1986 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name or Meaning The Stem Forming Frondaria
Flower Size
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1300 to 3200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte an erect, basally branching stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying linear, acute, narrowing below into the tubular base that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, terminal, secund, several to many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Humboldtia caulescens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Pleurothallis caulescens Lindl. 1834; Pleurothallis graminea Schlt. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 Pleurothallis graminea; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol I: Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Luer 1986; Orchids of Bolivia Ibisch & Vasquez 2000; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001
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