Plectrophora suarezii Dodson & M.W.Chase 1989

Flower Closeup Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name Suarez's Plectrophora Ecuadorian, Original Collector of Species current]

Flower Size .2" [3 cm]

Found in Napo Ecuador at elevations of 300 to 450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyete in wet montane forests with small, rotund pseduobulbs enveloped basally by a few, leafless, imbricate, distichous, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, gradually attenuate and conduplicate into the petiolate bsae leaf and blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, successively few, single flowered inflorescence and a few triangular bracts and a similar floral bract

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchid of Ecuador Plate 570 Dodson & Chase 1989; Native Ecuadoria Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003

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