Pleurothallis melanosticta Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998

Another Angle Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Black-Spotted Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1070 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte in riverine forests with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, close, tubular sheaths and another near the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate into the subsessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, densly many simultaneously flowered, 8" [20 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;

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