Pleurothallis giraldoi

 Pleurothallis giraldoi Luer, Orquideologia 21(2): 125 (-127, fig.) (1999).

Pleurothallis giraldoi Luer, Photo by David Haelterman

its native range is Colombia.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis giraldoi Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Acronia giraldoi (Luer) Luer

Zosterophyllanthos giraldoi (Luer) Szlach. & Kulak

English Name:

Giraldo's Pleurothallis (Colombian co-discoverer of species current).

Description: 

With slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath in the lower third and 2 more at the base and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, broadly cordate-ovate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, deeply cordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a successively single to few flowered inflorescence arising through a suberect, conduplicate spathe at the base of the leaf and has tubular floral bracts.

Distribution:

Colombia. 

Ecological:

At elevations around 1900 m as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

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:

Collector Team;

L.Olver A.,J.Giraldo G. 97

Type Herbaria:

holotype TULV

Distribution Of Types:

Finca Zingara, between Cali and Buenaventura, 1900 m, Valle del Cauca (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America).

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/318277-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:318277-2

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

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

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