Pleurothallis ruberrima Lindley 1846 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Intensive Brick-Red Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela in wet montane forests as a caespitose, small to medium sized, terrestrial or epiphytic species from wet montane forests or cloud forests that is characterized by it's hanging solitary flower. It is found at altitudes of 750 to 2800 meters and is a cool to warm growing species with a long, thin ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 long, close, tubular distant sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, cordate, acute, abruptly narrowing below, clear green leaf with a prominent midvein that blooms on an apical, short, fasciculate, pendulous inflorescence with a small scarious spathe and successive few flowering with only one open at a time, and the flower is held dangling from near the leaf base, occuring from fall through early winter.
Synonyms Acronia ruberrima [Lindl.]Luer 2005; Humboldtia ruberrima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia ruberrima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891Pleurothallis nutantiflora Schltr. 1915; Pleurothallis opeatorhyncha Schltr. 1921; Pleurothallis yungascensis Rolfe 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as P opeatorhyncha; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #7 25-28 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as P opeatorhyncha drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 255 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 164 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing huh?; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo 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; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide as Acronia ruberrima; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 as Acronia ruberrima photo fide
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