Pleurothallis caudatipetala C.Schweinf. 1942 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by © Sebastian Viera Uribe
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
THROUGH EARLIER
Common Name The Caudate Petal Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1200 to 2050 meters as mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through earlier fall on a loose, flexous, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.
Synonyms Anathallis caudatipetala (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2009; Lankesteriana caudatipetala (C.Schweinf.) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia caudatipetala (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2006; Specklinia caudatipetala (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia caudatipetala; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia caudatipetala drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXX Luer 2009 as Anathallis caudatipetala; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 327 Karremans 2014 as Lankestriana caudatipetala; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana caudatipetala; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana caudatipetala photo fide
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