Pleurothallis ruscaria Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Scopula Luer 1986 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Plant and Flowers Photo by Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning The Broom Pleurothallis [refers to the tufted inflorescence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in SW Colombia and Ecuador in shady, wet tropical forests at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying an erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuncatc, long-decurrent base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence enclosed by a fugacious spathe and carrying small globose flowers held towards the apex of the leaf in a tuft.

Synonyms Colombiana ruscaria (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Luer 1989 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Colombiana ruscaria

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