Pleurothallis analoga [Luer & Toscano] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Similar to Pleurothallis [refers to its simularity to P wacketii ]

Flower Size .4" [1c m]

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil at elevations around 300 to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 ribbed, tightly fitting, thin margin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, more or less mottled with purple, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 2.8 to 5.2" [7 to 13 cm] long, from near the apex of the ramicaul airing through a spathe, a 5.2 to 8.4" [13 to 21 cm] long overall, loose, strict, successively several flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract

Synonyms *Pabstiella analoga Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 16:370 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES and Combinations IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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