EcoFlora - Pleurothallis

Pleurothallis
Family: Orchidaceae Media not available	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 \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Pleurothallis abbreviata Map not Available Pleurothallis allenii Map not Available Pleurothallis angustifolia Map not Available Pleurothallis appendiculata Media not available Map not Available Pleurothallis archidiaconi Map not Available Pleurothallis aristata Map not Available Pleurothallis aspergillum Map not Available Pleurothallis aurita Map not Available Pleurothallis bivalvis Map not Available Pleurothallis brighamii Map not Available Pleurothallis cachensis Map not Available Pleurothallis canaligera $Media resource of Pleurothallis canaligera$ Map not Available Pleurothallis cardiochila Map not Available Pleurothallis cardiostola Map not Available Pleurothallis cardiothallis Map not Available Pleurothallis chloroleuca Map not Available Pleurothallis ciliaris Media not available Map not Available Pleurothallis colossus Map not Available Pleurothallis cordata $Media resource of Pleurothallis cordata$ Map not Available Pleurothallis cordifolia Map not Available Pleurothallis coriacardia Map not Available Pleurothallis coriacea Map not Available Pleurothallis correllii Map not Available Pleurothallis crescentilabia Map not Available Pleurothallis crocodiliceps Map not Available Pleurothallis cymbiformis Map not Available Pleurothallis dentipetala Map not Available Pleurothallis dichotoma Map not Available Pleurothallis discoidea Map not Available Pleurothallis domingensis Map not Available Pleurothallis ekmanii Map not Available Pleurothallis elvirana Map not Available Pleurothallis eumecocaulon Map not Available Pleurothallis excavata Map not Available Pleurothallis fantastica Map not Available Pleurothallis fastidiosa Map not Available Pleurothallis flexuosa Map not Available Pleurothallis foliata Map not Available Pleurothallis fossulata $Media resource of Pleurothallis fossulata$ Map not Available Pleurothallis gelida Map not Available Pleurothallis ghiesbreghtiana Map not Available Pleurothallis gracilicaulis Media not available Map not Available Pleurothallis grandiflora Map not Available Pleurothallis grobyi Map not Available Pleurothallis helleri Map not Available Pleurothallis hirsuta Map not Available Pleurothallis homalantha Map not Available Pleurothallis imperialis Map not Available Pleurothallis inornata Media not available Map not Available Pleurothallis isthmica Map not Available