Pleurothallis concinna Luer & R.Vásquez 1999 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Elegant Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a loose, secund, 6 to 9.6" [15 to 23 cm] long, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with an annulus.
"Similar to P sclerophylla in habit as well as the long many flowered inflorescnece farr exceedingthe leaf in length, the petals and sepals are similar as well. The lip however is distinct witha tin, serrated margin above the middle and erect, lateral lobes below the middle and three longitudinal calli." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis concinna (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia concinna (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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 as P breviscapa drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia concinna; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 as Stelis lauta photo fide;
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