Pleurothallis ichthyonekys Luer 1977

SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Fish Carcass Pleurothallis [an allusion to the shape of the petals]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador in dwarf forests at elevations around 2600 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a horizontal, more or less creeping, to 5.6" [to 14 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.

Synonyms Muscarella ichthyonekys (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia ichthyonekys (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella ichthyonekys drawing fide;

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