Pleurothallis microcardia

Pleurothallis microcardia Rchb.f., Bonplandia 3: 72 (1855).

Pleurothallis microcardia Rchb.f. Photo by Koos Peters

its native range is W. South America.

Latinh Name: 

Pleurothallis microcardia Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Acronia microcardia (Rchb.f.) Luer

Pleurothallis chachatoynsis Schltr.

Pleurothallis cundinamarcae Schltr.

Pleurothallis stenosepala Rolfe

Zosterophyllanthos microcardia (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kolan.

English Name:

The Small Heart Pleurothallis (refers to the leaf and the labellum).

Description: 

With slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close basal tubular sheaths and another towards the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading to suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, basally rounded, shallowly cordate and sessile leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a single, successive flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with the flower lying against the center of the leaf (prostrate).

Distribution:

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Ecological:

At elevations of 700 to 2600 m as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms at most any time of the year.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

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

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- orchids.fandom.com

- ecuagenera.com