Pleurothallis tetroxys Luer 1989 SUBGENUS Scopula Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by OrchidMania

Common Name The Four Sharp Point Pleurothallis [refers to the narrow, pointed sepals and petals]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador in wet forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls that have a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-linear, acute leaf that is narrowly cuneate at the base and indistinctly petiolate and blooms in the winter on a fascile of 3/16" [5 mm] long, successive single flowered inflorescence subtended by a spathe at the apex of the leaf.

Synonyms Colombiana tetroxys (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Vol 6 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Colombiana tetroxys

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