Pleurothallis crucifera

 Pleurothallis crucifera Luer & Hirtz, Lindleyana 11: 157, fig (1996).

Pleurothallis crucifera Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is NW. Ecuador.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis crucifera Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Acronia crucifera (Luer & Hirtz) Luer

Zosterophyllanthos crucifer (Luer & Hirtz) Szlach. & Kulak

English Name:

The Cross-Carrying Pleurothallis.

Description: 

With an erect slender ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, round, deeply cordate, acute, thick, sessile basally, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and holding the flower close to the leaf base.

Distribution:

Ecuador. 

Ecological:

At elevations around 1000 to 2500 m as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte .

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter and early spring.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate:

Cool

Air Circulation:

Medium

Light:

Medium

Humidity:

High

Fertilizer:

Weekly

Typus:

Collector Team:

J.Kuijt, A.C.Hirtz,C.A.Luer, S.Dalström, T.Höijer 9837

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Epiphytic in forest between Chiriboga and Santo Domingo¹along the old road, 1200 m, Pichincha (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/305367-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305367-2

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

https://www.ecuagenera.com/Pleurothallis-crucifera/en