Pleurothallis divaricans Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998

Plant and Flowers Photos by C Ron Griesbeck courtesy of Yoshi Nomura and his Not So Green Thumb OrchidPages

Common Name The Spread Out Pleurothallis [refers to the racemes]

Flower Size

Found in Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1000 to 2600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-ovate, acute, narrowly cuneate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 3, erect to arching, congested, distichous, simultaneously many flowered, 1.6 to 5.2" [4 to 13 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf and has infundibular floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth vol 2 1959; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Tropicarum Plate 351 Bennett 7 Christenson 1995 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000

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