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Pleurothallis
Family:
Orchidaceae
FNA
Resources
C. A. Luer in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Herbs epiphytic. Roots fibrous. Stems erect, stout; sheaths tubular, variously enclosing stems. Leaves 1, erect, sessile or petiolate; blade leathery. Inflorescences terminal [axillary], 1-several lax or clustered racemes [solitary flower]. Flowers sometimes distichous, resupinate, opening simultaneously; sepals distinct [variously connate], subequal, membranous [thickly fleshy], pubescent [smooth or verrucose]; petals glabrous [verrucose, papillose, pubescent, ciliate, or fringed]; lip simple [2-5-lobed], membranous [thickly fleshy], callous, base loosely articulate to base of column or apex of column foot [sometimes inflexibly adnate]; column semiterete, stout [slender], winged [wingless], with or without column foot, apex with anther exposed or hooded; anther apical or adaxial; ovary articulate between ovary and minute curved pedicel; pollinia 2, pyriform with viscidium [spheric without viscidium] and caudicles [naked, with or without viscidium]; stigma adaxial [apical], 1-2-lobed; rostellum apical or adaxial. Fruits capsules, deciduous at pedicel (ca. 1 mm), ellipsoid, 3-valved.
Pleurothallis is the largest genus in the subtribe Pleurothallidinae, and perhaps in the Orchidaceae.
Species within inventory project:
Arizona Flora
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Pleurothallis leucantha
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Pleurothallis lindenii
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Pleurothallis linguifera
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Pleurothallis longipedicellata
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Pleurothallis longispicata
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Pleurothallis longissima
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Pleurothallis loranthophylla
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Pleurothallis luctuosa
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Pleurothallis macra
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Pleurothallis mammillata
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Pleurothallis marthae
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Pleurothallis matudana
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Pleurothallis millei
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Pleurothallis miqueliana
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Pleurothallis nigriflora
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Pleurothallis niveoglobula
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Pleurothallis notabilis
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Pleurothallis nuda
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Pleurothallis obovata
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Pleurothallis odontopetala
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Pleurothallis pachyrachis
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Pleurothallis pallida
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Pleurothallis palliolata
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Pleurothallis pansamalae
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Pleurothallis peduncularis
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Pleurothallis pedunculata
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Pleurothallis penduliflora
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Pleurothallis phalangifera
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Pleurothallis phyllocardia
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Pleurothallis phyllocardioides
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Pleurothallis picta
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Pleurothallis platystylis
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Pleurothallis pruinosa
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Pleurothallis pubescens
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Pleurothallis quadrifida
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Pleurothallis racemiflora
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Pleurothallis rectipetala
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Pleurothallis restrepioides
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Pleurothallis retusa
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Pleurothallis revoluta
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Pleurothallis rhodoglossa
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Pleurothallis rowleei
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Pleurothallis ruberrima
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Pleurothallis rubigena
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Pleurothallis ruscifolia
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Pleurothallis saccatilabia
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Pleurothallis sanchoi
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Pleurothallis secunda
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Pleurothallis segoviensis
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Pleurothallis silverstonei
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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