Pleurothallis inornata

 Pleurothallis inornata Luer & Hirtz, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 31: 30 (1989).

Pleurothallis inornata Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Kevin Holcomb 

its native range is Ecuador (Morona-Santiago).

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis inornata Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Ancipitia inornata (Luer & Hirtz) Luer

English Name:

The Unadorned Pleurothallis (refer to it's similarity to others in Section Macrophylla-fasciculatae).

Description: 

With slender, erect, sharply ancipitous ramicauls with 2 to 3 tubular sheaths near or at the base and carrying a single, apical, more or less spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded to shallowly cordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of  5 to 6 mm long, successive single, few flowered inflorescence arising from the base of the leaf through a reclining spathe.

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 1800 m as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

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:

Distribution Of Types:

Ecuador.

Original Data:

Distribution: Ecuador.

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/938480-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:938480-1

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

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242414490

https://orchids.fandom.com