Pleurothallis bicruris Lindl. 1859

SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae 1998 Luer 1998 Photo by © Alexander Reynolds and UC Davis Orchid Website

Full shade Cool Summer

Common Name or Meaning The Two Legged Pleurothallis [refers to the forked lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in northern Ecuador at elevations around 2800 to 3200 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with relatively slender, erect ramicauls with an inflated tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying an erect, single, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, shortly acuminate, rounded into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 3, loose, flexuous, dangling, 4 to 6.4" [10 to 16 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with tubular floral bracts.

Synonyms Humboltia bicruris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis diploglossa Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer Drawing fide;

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