Pleurothallis mammillata Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dracontia Luer 1986

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Common Name The Nipple Pleurothallis [refers to the calli on the lip]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Panama at elevations around 650 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with ascending, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, narrolwy elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a weak, arching, distichous, 3.2 to 4.4" [8 to 11 cm] long, congested, many [to 30] flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing ok;

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