Pleurothallis imberbis Luer & Hirtz 1996
SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
Drawing © by Dunsterville
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Common Name The Beardless Pleurothallis
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations around 200 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, rounded, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a suberect, successively single flowered inflorescence.
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Synonyms Anathallis imberis [Luer & Hirtz] Luer 2009; Lankesteriana imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis aondae Carnevali & Romero 2000; Specklinia imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P aondae drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia imberis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia imberbis drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Lankesteriana imberbis; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana imberbis drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana imberbis photo fide
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