Pleurothallis caymanensis C.D.Adams 1971 Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Cayman Pleurothallis

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands in semideciduous forests at low elevations, generally in vegetation on limestone as a mini-miniature szied, hot growing lithophyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, thickened, rigid, yellowish green and verrucate on the upper surface, green and rough beneath, ovate to broadly elliiptic to suborbicular, acute, acuminte to apiculate, crenulate to erose margins, cuneate below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2, terminal, ascending, .4 to 2" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, successsively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising through a basal sheath

Synonyms Proctoria caymanensis (C.D.Adams) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Proctoria caymanensis;

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