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Pleurothallis mucronata is an orchid species identified by Lindl. ex Cogn. in I.Urban in 1909. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Muscarella mucronata.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Cuba in humid and shady to partially open conditions, usually along rivulets in gallery forests or rarely in montane rainforests from 500 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cool growing epiphyte with densely clustered, very short ramicauls enveloped by 3, membraneous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, yeloowish green, glabrous above, green and glabrous beneath, elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse to shortly apiculate, shortly attenuate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer on a terminal, erect, filiform, red, glabrous, to 2 [5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus and an ovate sheath and has various bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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