Pleurothallis duplex

Pleurothallis duplex Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 16(1): 22 (1983).

Pleurothallis duplex Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is Colombia (Norte de Santander).

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis duplex Luer & R.Escobar 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Ancipitia duplex (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer

English Name:

The Double Pleurothallis (refers to the similarity to the dorsal sepal and the synsepal).

Description: 

With slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, rigid, coriaceous, ovate, acute, externally carinate, rounded and subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring and again in mid fall on a fascile of filiform, .1 to 2.5 cm long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe above the base of the leaf.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

At elevations of 1730 to 2200 m as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the later spring and again in mid fall.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Type Information:

Distribution Of Types:

Colombia.

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/902799-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:902799-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurduplex.htm. 

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