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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis secunda
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis secunda is an orchid species identified by Poepp. & Endl. in 1836.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a small to just medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte on tree trunks in dense wet forests at elevations of 600 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a small to just medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte on tree trunks in dense wet forests at elevations of 600 to 3200 meters with caespitose, terete, slender, to stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 4 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic or oblong, acute to shortly acuminate, coriaceous leaf and blooms in the spring on a 1-2 suberect to arching, lax, to 8 [20 cm] long, simultaneously several-flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts that holds the non-resupinae flowers out and away from midleaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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