Pleurothallis xanthochlora Rchb.f. 1850 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Longiracemosae [Luer] Luer 1998

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Common Name The Yellow Green Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1200 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter through summer on 1 to 4, distichous, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, subdensely, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf and has tubular floral bracts.

Synonyms Humboltia xanthochlora (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis dolichocaulon Schltr.1922; Pleurothallis huanucoensis Schltr. 1921;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Luer 1999 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good;

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