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Pleurothallis pergrata
Trichosalpinx pergrata
Small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 7 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a very short fascile of successive single flowers arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. Description credits to Jay Pfahl (IOSPE)
Growing profile
At a glance
- Plant type
- orchid
- Typical size
- mini 4–8cm
- Light
- Indirect
- Humidity
- 80–100%
Native context
Distribution and habitat
- Countries
- Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama
- Elevation
- Montane (1,000–2,000 m), Subalpine (2,000–3,000 m)
- Flowering
- Spring, Summer
Derived growing context
Climate range
- Temperature profile
- Cool → Intermediate
- Mean temperature
- 11–17 °C
- Day temperature
- 13–21 °C
- Night temperature
- 7–15 °C
- Summer mean
- 16 °C
- Winter mean
- 13 °C
- Temperature span
- 14 °C
- Annual temperature swing
- 3 °C
- Seasonality
- Aseasonal
- Adaptability
- Moderately adaptable
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- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Panama
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Habitat-specific growing context
Cloud forest
Montane + saturated air; frequent fog/condensation
- Latitude
- Tropical
- Moisture
- Saturated, Very humid
- Elevation
- Montane, Subalpine
- Seasonality
- Aseasonal
- Mean temperature
- 11–17 °C
- Day temperature
- 13–20 °C
- Night temperature
- 8–15 °C
- Annual temperature swing
- 3 °C
Wet forest
Very humid forest; frequent wetness
- Latitude
- Tropical
- Moisture
- Humid
- Elevation
- Montane, Subalpine
- Seasonality
- Aseasonal
- Mean temperature
- 11–17 °C
- Day temperature
- 14–21 °C
- Night temperature
- 7–14 °C
- Annual temperature swing
- 3 °C
Seasonal context
- Very small annual temperature swing; fairly consistent through the year
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