Pleurothallis longispicata L.O.Williams 1946 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
Common Name or Meaning The Long Spiked Pleurothallis
Flower Size .1" [5mm]
Found in Mexico in humid montane forest, partially cleared for pasture, etc. on steep volcanic slopes and alluvial flats at elevations of 1700 to 2150 meters . Along the Rio Cordoban in sandy and rocky soil as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubualr sheath and 2 to 3 others at the base and carryign a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneatte below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer
Synonyms Effusiella longispicata (L.O.Williams) Luer 2007; Specklinia longispicata (L.O.Williams) Luer 2004; Stelis longispicata (L.O.Williams) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia longispicata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Effusiella longispicataAOS Bulletin Vol 86 #7 2017 AS sTELIS LONGISPICATA photo fide;
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