Pleurothallis dimidia Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Lindley 1859 Photo by © Ecuagenera and Their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

Full shade Cool Cold LATER Summer fall

Common Name The Half the Size Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 2100 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with blackish, erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, ercet, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on a loose, subsecund, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe in an annulus and

Similar to P acuminata but smaller in all details including smaller flowers.

Synonyms Anathallis dimidia (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia dimidia (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as P asperilinguis drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P asperilinguis drawing ok; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia dimidia;

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