Pleurothallis penicillata Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Scopula Luer 1986
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Head on View of Flower Photo by Copyright © Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Common Name The Painter's Brush Pleurothallis [Allusion to the fascile of inflorescence]]
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Narino Colombia on the western slopes of the western Cordillera in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carryring a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, lightly acuminate, narrowly cuneate and long-decurrent below into the ramicaul that blooms in the winter and spring on a fascile of 1/4" [7 to 8mm] long, successive, single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe held towards the apex of the leaf and has a thin floral bract.
Synonyms Colombiana penicillata (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 33 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Colombiana penicillata;
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