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|accepted_name=Pleurothallis
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|place=5: 211. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae;Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae;Pleurothallis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pleurothallis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek pleuron, rib, and thallos, branch, referring to cespitose, slender, aerial shoots
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 495, 617
|treatment_page=page 616
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>epiphytic. <b>Roots</b> fibrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, stout; sheaths tubular, variously enclosing stems. <b>Leaves</b> 1, erect, sessile or petiolate; blade leathery. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal [axillary], 1–several lax or clustered racemes [solitary flower]. <b>Flowers</b> sometimes distichous, resupinate, opening simultaneously; sepals distinct [variously connate], subequal, membranous [thickly fleshy], pubescent [smooth or verrucose]; petals glabrous [verrucose, papillose, pubescent, ciliate, or fringed]; lip simple [2–5-lobed], membranous [thickly fleshy], callous, base loosely articulate to base of column or apex of column foot [sometimes inflexibly adnate]; column semiterete, stout [slender], winged [wingless], with or without column foot, apex with anther exposed or hooded; anther apical or adaxial; ovary articulate between ovary and minute curved pedicel; pollinia 2, pyriform with viscidium [spheric without viscidium] and caudicles [naked, with or without viscidium]; stigma adaxial [apical], 1–2-lobed; rostellum apical or adaxial. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, deciduous at pedicel (ca. 1 mm), ellipsoid, 3-valved.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropics;s Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 2500 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Pleurothallis</i> is the largest genus in the subtribe Pleurothallidinae, and perhaps in the <i>Orchidaceae</i>.</p>
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name=Pleurothallis
|author=C. A. Luer
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropics;s Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1813
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1260.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae
|genus=Pleurothallis
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