Pleurothallis index Geonoma This cool-growing epiphyte

This cool-growing epiphyte

dropping to 10-16°C (50-60°F) at night

The plant's leaves can grow quite large

The name "asterotricha" refers to the star-shaped hairs found on the flowers

The long leaf stems allow the foliage to hang gracefully

Pleurothallis index Geonoma This cool-growing epiphyteFound in Nario and Choco departments of Colombia and Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations of 750 to 1950 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by close tubular sheaths above the base and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, spreading, sessile, broadly ovate, subacute, shortly acuminate, basally deeply cordate leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile, arising through