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[[File:Pleurothallis_glumacea.jpg|thumb|''Pleurothallis glumacea'']]

'''Code:''' PTHS.0x0005

'''Common Name:''' The Glumacious Pleurothallis<br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' deep shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to intermediate<br />
'''Bloom:''' summer and again in autumn<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 1.9cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Acianthera glumacea'' (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; ''Humboldtia glumacea'' (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; ''Pleurothallis alexandrae'' Schltr. 1922; ''Pleurothallis alexandrae'' Schltr. 1923; ''Pleurothallis crocea'' Barb.Rodr. 1881; ''Pleurothallis glaziovii'' Cogn. 1896; ''Pleurothallis vitellina'' Porsch 1905

Found in Southern and South-Eastern Brazil on rough mossy bark in primary forests at elevations of 1300m as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the stout, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on 2 to 3 at once, racemose, 6cm long, 4 to 9 flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and can bloom for several years with new inflorescence from the same ramicaul.


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