Pleurothallis sijmii Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Elongatia SECTION Elongatia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Sijmi's Pleurothallis [Dutch collector of species current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of northern Peru as a small to medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and by a tubular sheath below the middle and carries a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, erect, rigid, elliptical, sessile leaf that is cuneate into the base. This species blooms in the summer on a suberect to horizontal, loose, arising from a spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, secund, rachis to 4" [to 10 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Characterized by the rigid, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, sessile leaf that is surpassed by a loose, racemose inflorescence of large showy flowers with acuminate sepals mottled with purple. From an elliptical blade the apex of the petal is narrowly terete with small warts. The oblong lip is elliptical above the middle with a minutely fringed margin and below the middle the margins are smooth, erect and broadly rounded." Luer 2002
Synonyms Elongatia sijmii (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 drawing fide;
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