Pleurothallis granulosa (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842 Photo by © Marcelo Rodrigues and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Granular Spotted Pleurothallis [refers to the little knobs on the sepals and lip]

Flower Size

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil in primary cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect rtamicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, orange brown sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, light green, broadly lanceoalte, leathery, conduplicate, slightly infolded, attenuate belw int o the bhase leaf that blooms in the spring through late summer on a slightly curved, 10 to 14" [25 to 35 cm] long, successively to 4 at once, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence arisng through a spathe.

Synonyms *Lepanthes granulosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pabstiella granulosa (Barb.Rodr.) Chiron & Xim.Bols. 2010; Specklinia granulosa (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004; Stelis granulosa (Barb.Rodr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis granulosa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia granulosa; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide

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