Pleurothallis ramiromedinae Thoerle & Hirtz 2018 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photos by © Kevin Holcomb
TYPE Drawing by © Lisa Thoerle and OrchideenJ. 6(1): 6 Pleurothallis ramiromedinae. (Pleurothallidinae;. Orchidaceae), a new species from. Colombia and Ecuador Thoerle & Hirtz 2018
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Common Name Ramiro Medina's Pleurothallis [Colombian Orchid Cultivator extrordinaire in Putumayo current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia and Sucumbios province of Ecuador on the steep hillsides in premontane rainforest at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, coolgrowing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to suberect enclosed basally by 3, papery, dark brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, horizontal to usually deflexed, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, slightly concave above the base, acuminate, acute, shortly retusesessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a descending, short, arising through a brown, papery, conduplicate, reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .04 to .12" [1 to 3 mm] long, concealed within the spathe, shorter than the ovary, concealed within the spathe floral bract.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Similar to P perijaensis but differs in the sepals and petals that are coarsely pubescent, vs glandular to papillose on a cellular level, lateral sepals that diverge widely vs unite to form a synsepal, and the column with dilated stigmatic lobes that are externally pubescent and shortly lacerate at the margins vs undilated and glabrous." Thoerle & Hirtz 2018
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* OrchideenJ. 6(1): 6 Pleurothallis ramiromedinae. (Pleurothallidinae;. Orchidaceae), a new species from. Colombia and Ecuador Thoerle & Hirtz 2018 drawing/photo fide;
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