Pleurothallis cabellensis Rchb.f. 1850 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Sylphia

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Common Name The Mt Cabello Pleurothallis [A mountain in Venezuela]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations of 1350 to 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, ribbed sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring, summer and fall on a lax, flexuous, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long including the .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.

Synonyms Humboltia cabellensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis fritzii Carnevali & G.A.Romero in G.A.Romero & G.Carnevali 2000; Specklinia cabellensis (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Sylphia cabellensis (Rchb.f.) Luer 2006; Verapazia cabellensis (Rchb.f.) Chiron & Szlach. 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol III Luer 1986; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Romero & Carnevali 2000 as P fritzii drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sylpia cabellensis drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella cabellensis photo fide

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