Pleurothallis infinita Luer 1997 publ. 1998 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foudation at the Jany Renz herbaria Website

Common Name The Boundless Pleurothallis [refers to the limitless variations of the lip found in the P zephyrina complex]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in La Paz Bolivia at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform to 2.4" [6 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, loose successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin floral bract.

Synonyms Muscarella infinita (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia infinita (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia infinita; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella infinita drawing fide

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