Pleurothallis grandiflora Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
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Common Name The Large Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 3300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, cordate, apically tridentate leaf that blooms on a single flowered, short inflorescence holding the flower against the leaf base and occuring in the fall.
Synonyms Acronia grandiflora Luer 2005; Humboldtia grandiflora (Lindl.) O. Ktz. 1891; Humboltia grandiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis boliviana Schltr. 1912; Pleurothallis buchtienii Schltr. 1922; Zosterophyllanthos grandiflorus ( Lindl. ) Szlach. & Margonska 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as P boliviana; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 not = P siphoglossa; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing ok; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as P buchtienii; Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = P siphoglossa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2004 Acronia grandiflora drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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