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Orchid Species: Pleurothallopsis monetalis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallopsis monetalis is an orchid species identified by (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase in 2001.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Southern Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envloped basally by 2 to 3 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse to rounded, abruptly narrows below into the petiolate base leaf that is purple suffused and that blooms in the spring on a successively single flowered, fasiculate, 1/16 to 1/8 [3 to 7 mm] long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. There is a large gap between the northern Venezuelan and southern Ecuadorian species as there are none recorded from Colombia, but other than the smaller Venezuelan flowers with minor differences they are the same species.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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