Pleurothallis lanigera Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Wooly Pleurothallis
Flower Size .32" [.8 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations of 1100 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, round in cross-section, ramicauls with close, tubular sheaths above the base, and carrying a single, apical, spreading, expanded, coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, deeply cordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a arising through and concealed by an erect, foliaceous spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, a fascile of successively solitary, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and holding the flower close against the leaf base.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Similar to Pleurothallis cardiostolabut differs in the leaf which is flat and broadly cordate, spreading about 90 degrees from the ramicaul. In P cardiostola the leaf is conduplicate below the middle and sharply defexed about 180 degrees on the ramicaul." Luer 1988
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 3: 146 Luer & Hirtz 1988 Drawing fide;
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