Pleurothallis gracillima Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986
Photo by Andy Phillips and Andy’s Orchids
Photo by John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in southwestern Colombia and Ecuador in scrub cloud forests at elevations around 1400 to 3000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, obtuse, shortly bilobed apically, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a single, erect, 7.2" [18 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with cucullate-ovate, shortly acuminate flroal bracts.
Synonyms Humboldtia gracillima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis brevicaulis Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis humidicola Garay 1953; Specklinia gracillima (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P brevicaulis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina gracillima; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia gracillima drawing good; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia gracillima photo fide
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