Pleurothallis intonsa Luer & R.Escobar 1981
Plant and Flowers Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Unshaved Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2550 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 basal sheaths and carrying narrowly elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, successively single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Specklinia intonsa (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella intonsa drawing ok
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