Pleurothallis angustilabia Schltr. 1921
SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Alatae Luer 1986
Photos by © Rebecca Repasky and The Atrium Website
Drawing by © Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The Narrow Lipped Pleurothallis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in premontane to montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, more or less aproximate, 3 to 4 jointed, ramicauls carrying several close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 2 to numerous, much shorter than the leaf, rarely to 3.12" [7.8 cm] long, loosely to 12 flowered inflorescence.
"Easily distinguished from P obovata by the caespitose habit, the wider leaves, longer, looser racemes and longer sepals." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis angustilabia (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia angustilabia (Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing good; Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia angustilabia; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 as Anathallis angustilabia drawing/photos fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis anGUSTILABIA photo fide
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