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Orchid Species: Pleurothallis ruscifolia

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Pleurothallis ruscifolia is an orchid species identified by (Jacq.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton in 1813.
Genus
Pleurothallis (Pths.)
Grex
ruscifolia
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Jacq.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Year
1813
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ORIGIN: Found from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Puerto Rico, Leewards, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Cuba as a miniature to small sized, caespitose, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophytic species in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A miniature to small sized, caespitose, cool to hot growing epiphyte or lithophytic species in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters with a slender, terete ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular scarious bract and another at the middle and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate to the short conduplicate petiole, acuminate leaf that blooms on a lateral, short inflorescence subtended with imbricating bracts that holds the fasciculate, tight globular clusters of single, occasionally successive, bilabiate, delicately fragrant flowers close to the leaf base and occurs mostly in the summer. This species is widespread and is the type for the genus as well as this subsection and can be variable in size.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 to 3/4 inch [6 mm to 2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths glomerata 1923 Ames
Add+ Epidendrum Epi ruscifolium 1760 Jacq.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths multicaulis 1836 Poepp. & Endl.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths succosa 1830 Lindl.
Add+ Dendrobium Den ruscifolium 1799 (Jacq.) Sw.
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia laurifolia 1891 (Kunth) Kuntze
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia ruscifolia 1891 (Jacq.) Kuntze
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia succosa 1830 Pav. ex Lindl.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths laurifolia 1816 Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. ruscifolia 'Evets' (1979)
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