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Pleurothallis scabridula is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1895. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Trichosalpinx scabridula.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia at elevations af 1900 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, prolific, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ascending, scandent, prolific, branching ramicauls enveloped completely by 2 to 4, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, often purplish, ascending, thickly coriaceous, elliptical to suborbicular, lens-shaped, obtuse to rounded apically broadly cuneate to rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, .8 to 1.2 [2 to 3 cm] long, loose, subflexuous, distichous, simultaneously few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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