Pleurothallis lasioglossa Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Hairy Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern Ecuador at elevations of 2600 to 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, flexuous, distichous, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and has a tubular floral bract

Synonyms Anathallis implexa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Anathallis lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2009; Panmorphia lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2006; Specklinia lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia lasioglossa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia lasioglossa drawing fide

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