Pleurothallis hemirhoda Lindl. & Paxton 1852-3 Colombia Type SUBGENUS Restrepioidia Luer 1986

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Common Name The Half-Red Pleurothallis

Flower Size 1/2" or more [1.5 cm and more]

Found in wet montane forests of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters with green or dark purple ramicauls with 2 to 3 basal, tubular scarious sheaths and a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, minutely bilobed, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms on an apical, short, fasciculate, few flowered inflorescence that holds the semi-pendulous successive opening, nodding singular flower near the leaf base occuring in the spring, fall and winter and is a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte.

Synonyms Dubois-reymondia hemirrhoda (Lindl. & Paxton) Brieger 1977; Humboldtia hemirhoda (Lindl. & Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia hemirhoda (Lindl. & Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Lindleyalis hemirhoda (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis nuda (Klotzsch) Rchb. f. 1861; Restrepia biflora Regel 1856; Restrepia nuda Klotzsch 1852; Restrepia vittata Lindl. 1848; Restrepia vittata var. biflora Regel 1856

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0280 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 159 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Lindleyallis hemirhoda; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 285 photo fide as P nuda; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 286 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 287 photo fide

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