Pleurothallis calogramma Luer 2003 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Drawing courtesy of © Epidendra.

Common Name The Beautiful Lined Pleurothallis [refers to the dorsal sepal]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia on the central cordillera at elevations around 2300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, acute cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of few single flwoers arising from the base of the leaf with the peduncle concealed within a spathe.

Similar to P bivalvis but differs in the white sepals prominently striped in red-purple along the veins, the petals with the upper half red and the lower half white as well as the dark red convex lip.

Synonyms Acronia calogramma (Luer) Luer 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia calogramma drawing fide

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