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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis apopsis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pleurothallis apopsis is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1979.
ORIGIN: Found in Imbabura and Napo Ecuador at elevations of 3200 to 3700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a long tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 shorter ones at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, deflexed, cordate-ovate, acute, more or less concave below into the deeply cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a fascile of short, successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining to suberect, conduplicate spathe with thin floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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