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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis penicillata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis penicillata is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1980.
ORIGIN: Found in Narino Colombia on the western slopes of the western Cordillera in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carryring a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, lightly acuminate, narrowly cuneate and long-decurrent below into the ramicaul that blooms in the winter and spring on a fascile of 1/4 [7 to 8mm] long, successive, single flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe held towards the apex of the leaf and has a thin floral bract.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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