Pleurothallis demissa Luer & R.Vásquez 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Modesto Zarate B. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Drooping Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in La Paz and Cochabamba departments of Bolivia at elevations around 2450 to 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, shortly repent ot caespitose epiphyte with very slender, erect to suberect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, suberect to spreading, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 1 to 2, arising from a small spathe at the base of the leaf, flaccid, pendent, slender, 10" [25 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with as long as to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the long, very slender ramicaul carrying a long narrow leaf, blooming on a long drooping raceme. The middle sepal and synsepal are acute, the petals narrowly linear and thick and the lip is transversely "V-shaped" expanded". Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide;
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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