Cactus-Flower Pleurothallis

Pleurothallis cactantha

Pleurothallis cactantha, nicknamed the Cactus-Flower Pleurothallis, is a miniature orchid found in Panama and Colombia at elevations around 650 to 1650m.
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Appearance

hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin. tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green to blue green, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, marginate, cuneate below into the indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascile, of congested, slender, suberect, sparsely spiculate, 1/2 to .8" [1.3 to 2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence held beyond the leaf with thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusPleurothallis
SpeciesPleurothallis cactantha
Photographed in
Colombia