dimanche 16 septembre 2012

pleurothallis prolifera



Light, cold to cool, flower all year
This miniature sized, lithophytic or epiphytic, cold to cool growing species is found in Guyana, Venezuela, Bolivia and Rio De Janiero, Distrito federal, Bahia, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters in areas with hot dry days and cool nights with frequent dews as a small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte or terrestrial with erect stems enveloped basally by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, descending, fleshy-coriaceous, ovate to lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an apical, pendant, 3/4" [2 cm] long, fasciculate, few to several flowered inflorescence that holds the flowers flat along mid-leaf. Grow on treefern with cold to cool temperatures, bright light, moderate shade and a little lesss water than with most other Pleurothallis.