Pleurothallis dilemma Luer

국표에 없다.

PLEUROTHALLIS DILEMMA Native to Ecuador, this epiphyte is found at altitudes of 1800 to 2000m. This small orchid is quite unique with its long, narrow leaves hanging in the air. Our advice : Its environment should have good air circulation and a humidity level of about 60/70% and should not be left completely dry for a long time.

 

Orchid Species: Pleurothallis dilemma

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Pleurothallis dilemma is an orchid species identified by Luer in 2001.

Genus

Pleurothallis (Pths.)

Grex

dilemma
(name currently accepted by Kew)

Parents

Species

Author

Luer

Year

2001

ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheath and another on the lower half and carrying a single, apical, deflexed, thickly rigid, semi-terete, narrowly ovate to sigmoid-ovate, densely short-pubescent, broadly and shallowly channeled to near the apex, acute, basally sessile, deeply forked with semiterete basal lobes, pointing upwards leaf that blooms in the fall on a successive single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe at the leaf base.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

https://www.orchids.org/grexes/pleurothallis-dilemma

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheath and another on the lower half and carrying a single, apical, deflexed, thickly rigid, semi-terete, narrowly ovate to sigmoid-ovate, densely short-pubescent, broadly and shallowly channeled to near the apex, acute, basally sessile, deeply forked with semiterete basal lobes, pointing upwards leaf that blooms in the fall on a descending, arising through a reclining spathe at the leaf base, successive single flowered inflorescence.

IOSPE PHOTOS (orchidspecies.com)

https://youtu.be/a4Jy8GE6zAk