Pleurothallis

Over a 1000 species of this genus are found throughout the American tropics. The plants vary in size from miniature to huge, epiphytic to terrestrial, short to tall, erect to pendant, clumped to creeping, thick or thin leaves and single flowered to many flowered racemes. The flowers vary from coarse to delicate. There are species that thrive in warm, intermediate, or cool greenhouse conditions, some can be grows dry, while other must be grown wet