Pleurothallis cactantha Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Sylphia
Photo by © Wiel Driessen
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TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Cactus-Flower Pleurothallis [refers to the spiculate sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Panama and Colombia at elevations around 650 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin. tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green to blue green, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, marginate, cuneate below into the indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascile, of congested, slender, suberect, sparsely spiculate, 1/2 to .8" [1.3 to 2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence held beyond the leaf with thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts
Synonyms Specklinia cactantha (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Sylphia cactantha (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Selbyana 3(1–2): 72–73, f. 139. 1976 Luer Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sylphia cactantha drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklnia cactantha photo fide
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