Pleurothallis cucumeris Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Cucumeres Luer 1986 TYPE for the SECTION
Photo by © Wiel Driessen
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Cucumber Pleurothallis [refers to the verrucose flowers]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Chiriqui department of Panama at elevations around 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a erect, terete ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 6 loose, ribbed tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a verrucose, .2" [5 mm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence arising from a node below the abscission layer
Synonyms Cucumeria cucumeris (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Cucumeria cucumeris; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Cucumeria cucumeris; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklnia cucumeris photo fide
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