Pleurothallis erecta [Luer & Toscano] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

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Common Name The Erect Pleurothallis [refers to the position of the flower on the erect peduncle]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo state of Brazil in forests at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a solitary, erect, borne from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle ca. .4" [1 cm] long, rachis .8" [2 cm] long, lax, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"This tiny, caespitose species is characterized short ramicauls and longer leaves that are surpassed by an erect raceme with a few erect flowers. The dorsal sepal and the synsepal are ovate; the petals are obovate and sharply acuminate; a minute pair of carina are present above the middle of the disc; and a pair of calli are present on the column-foot as seen in Pleurothallis grobyi and all its relatives." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Specklinia erecta Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 380 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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