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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis correllii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis correllii is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1976.
ORIGIN: Occuring in Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico at elevations around 800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf that blooms on a short, apical, fasciculate, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and holding the flowers close to the leaf base and has a unpleasant odor and can occur at most any time of the year.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [6 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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