Pleurothallis volans is found only in Morona-Santiago Ecuador. It grows in cloud forests at elevations around 950 to 1500 meters...
Pleurothallis volans also called as The Flying Pleurothallis, Acronia volans, Zosterophyllanthos volans, is a species of the genus Pleurothallis. This species was described by Carlyle August Luer & Alexander Charles Hirtz in 1996.
IDENTIFY PLEUROTHALLIS VOLANS ORCHID PLANT
Pleurothallis volans is found only in Morona-Santiago Ecuador. It grows in cloud forests at elevations around 950 to 1500 meters.
It is a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, basally sessile and deeply cordate leaf.
The Flying Pleurothallis blooms in the summer on a fascicle of successive, single flowered inflorescence arising through an erect to suberect, conduplicate spathe. The flowers are 1.5 cm in diameter.
SOME PICTURES OF PLEUROTHALLIS VOLANS ORCHID PLANT
PLEUROTHALLIS VOLANS ORCHID PLANT CARE AND CULTURE
Acronia volans is not an orchid for the room culture, it should be in the warmer area of the tempered greenhouse to be cultivated. This species grow best in the pot with well-drained substrate in a shady place with constantly high humidity and good air circulation. The proportion of water - retaining material such as sphagnum in the planting material depends on the casting habits.
The substrate should never be completely dehydrate, but also not dull. Direct sunlight tolerates not the plant, nor dryness. The daytime temperatures should not over 30 ° C, nighttime temperatures down to 15 ° C are absolutely no problem.
This kind of orchid does not have a rest period and can be cultivated evenly throughout the year. Weekly fertilization with about 10% of the concentration indicated for green plants is too recommend. The plants bloom according to their strength throughout the year.
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