Pleurothallis glossopogon Rchb.f. 1855 SUBGENUS Restrepioidia Luer 1986
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Another Angle of what was known as P biserrula
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by © Arturo Carillo
Drawings by Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Tongue-Like Beard Pleurothallis
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Trujillos state of Venezuela and Norte de Santander, Santander and Nariño departments of Colombia at elevations of 2100 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 to 2, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, fleshy, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, subacute to obtuse and tridenticulate apically, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to several, arising through an acute, conduplicate, glabrous spathe, erect, laxly 2 to 10 flowered, racemose, 6.4 to 12" [16 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying faintly fragrant flowers.
"Characterized by a large, sessile, oblong leaf borne by a somewhat longer, stout ramicaaul. The raceme arises from the base of the leaf through a large, reclining spathe. The loosely three flowered raceme eventually far surpasses the leaf, usually with several flowers open simultaneously, which suggests birds in flight. The dorsal sepal is long-acuminate and free from the lateral sepals. The lateral sepals are coherent into a narrowly ovate synsepal, but sometimes can part. The apices of the petals are long-attenuate and spreading. The lip, possibly mimicking a caterpillar, is three lobed with the middle lobe markedly fimbriate-papillose. The uncinate basal lobes are conspicuous as the arch forward above the basal third of the lip. P sirene is very similar differing only in the anterior lobe of the lip. This portion of the lip of P glossopogon is fimbriate-papillose, in P sirene it is slender, acute and only minutely erose at the apex." Luer 2000
Synonyms Humboldtia biserrula (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia glossopogon (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia insignis (Rolfe) Kuntze 1891; Lindleyalis glossopogon (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis birchenallii Rolfe 1909; Pleurothallis biserrula Rchb.f. 1855; Pleurothallis hoppii Schltr. 1924; Pleurothallis insignis Rolfe 1887;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as P biserrula;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as P sirene;
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 as Pleurothallis scapha drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as P insigne;
Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:46 Schlechter 1924 as P hoppii;
Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as P biserrula drawing good;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as P insignis;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as Pleurothallis biserrula drawing good;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P insignis; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as P insignis drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P biserrula drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P insignis drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis biserrula;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as P biserrula photo fide;
Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 as P biserrula photo fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P biserrula drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P sirene drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as P biserrula photo ok;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as P sirene photo hmm;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Lindleyallis glossopogon
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