Les :
You wrote : "tell me about Pleurothallis insignis color or anything at all".
The name Pleurothallis insignis is considered a synonym of Pleurothallis glossopogon. Pleae see Luer, C. A. (2000) Icones Pleurothallidinarum XX. Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodria, Pleurothallis subgen. Antilla, subgen. Effusa, subgen. Restrepioidia. Addenda to Lepanthes, Masdevallia, Platystele, Pleurothallis, Restrepiopsis, Scaphosepalum and Teagueia -- Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 79: 1--140 53
************* Pleurothallis glossopogon Rchb.f., Bonplandia 3: 71 (1855).
Humboldtia glossopogon (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 (1891). Colombia to N. Venezuela. 82 VEN 83 CLM.
Pleurothallis biserrula Rchb.f., Bonplandia 3: 71 (1855). Humboldtia biserrula (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 (1891). Pleurothallis insignis Rolfe, Gard. Chron., III, 1: 577 (1887). Humboldtia insignis (Rolfe) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 (1891). Pleurothallis birchenallii Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 365 (1909). Pleurothallis hoppii Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Bei h. 27: 46 (1924).
source :
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/monocots/orch_all.pdf
************* other references for Pleurothallis glossopogon :
Orchids and Ecology in Colombia, To the Rescue of Paradise, [p. 244]. Die Orchideenfloren der s|damerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten - II - Colombia, p.234. Native Colombian Orchids, volume 6, p. 966.
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