Pleurothallis involuta L.O.Williams 1946 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Intricate Pleurothallis [refers to the habit]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Michoacan Mexico at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, recling to ascending ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, subcongested, sulax, subsecund, filiform, .6" [1.5 cm] long including the .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm] long peduncle, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and has acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Anathallis involuta (L.O.Williams) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003; Lankesteriana involuta (L.O.Williams) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia involuta (L.O.Williams) Luer 2006; Specklinia involuta (L.O.Williams) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia inversa; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Anathallis involuta; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia inversa drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Lankesteriana involuta; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana involuta; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Lankestriana involuta
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