Pleurothallopsis striata

 Pleurothallopsis striata (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 255 (2001).

Pleurothallopsis striata (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Wiel Driessen

Pleurothallopsis striata (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Wiel Driessen

its native range is NE. Colombia to NW. Venezuela.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallopsis striata (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Restrepiopsis striata Luer & R.Escobar

English Name:

The Lined Pleurothallopsis.

Description: 

With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 5 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear-elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the base and blooms on a succession of single flowers arising in a fascile near the apex of the ramicaul.

Distribution:

Colombia, Venezuela.

Ecological:

As a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte in cool scrub cloud forests at elevations of 2400 to 2750 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

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.

Typus:

Colombia. Norte de Santander, epiphytic in scrub cloud forest, Alto del Pozo, alt. 2400 m on the road to Villacaro, 5 May 1982, C. Luer, J. Luer, R. Escobar & D. Portillo 7734 (holotype, SEL; illustration of type).

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/1129079-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1129079-2

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/restrepiostriata.htm.

- https://orchids.fandom.com

- https://www.epidendra.com/taxones/Restrepiopsis/Restrepiopsis%20striata/Pleurothallopsis%20striata/index.html