Pleurothallis abbreviata Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by Eric Hagsater
Photo courtesy of The Orchid Source Website.
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jnay Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Abbreviated Pleurothallis
Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate, acute leaf that gradually narrows basally into the elongate petiole that blooms in the summer and fall on a fractiflex, 1 1/4" [3.2 cm] long, successively several, single flowered, inflorescence.
CAUTION Both species represented here have some features of P abbreviata but neither satifies all. The 1 st photo matches Dodson's drawing but no other. The second photo is good for Zelenko but no other.
Synonyms Anathallis abbreviata (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Lankesteriana abbreviata (Schltr.) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia abbreviata (Schltr.) Luer 2006; Specklinia abbreviata (Schltr.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 209 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis abbreviata; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 517 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Anathalis abbreviata drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide to 1st photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia abbreviata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia abbreviata drawing lip not right; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Anathallis abbreviata; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 326 Karremans 2014 as Lankestriana abbreviata; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana abbreviata; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Lankesteriana abbreviata photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana abbreviata photo fide
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