Pleurothallis secunda Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998 Photo courtesy of Hans Vissers

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Common Name The One-Sided Bloom Pleurothallis

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a small to just medium sized epiphyte on tree trunks in dense wet forests at elevations of 600 to 3200 meters with caespitose, terete, slender, to stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 4 tubular sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, elliptic or oblong, acute to shortly acuminate, coriaceous leaf and blooms in the spring on a 1-2 suberect to arching, lax, to 8" [20 cm] long, simultaneously several-flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts that holds the non-resupinae flowers out and away from midleaf.

Synonyms Humboldtia secunda (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia secunda (Poepp. & Endl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis secunda var. longiracema C. Schweinf. 1955;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 10 1979 photo; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good in part; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo yes & No; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing fide

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