Pleurothallis mediocarinata C.Schweinf. 1970 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

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Common Name The Carinate Midline Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, secund, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with an annulus below the base of the leaf.

"Distinguished by the elliptical, petiolate base leaf surpassed by a secund, several flowered inflorescence of medium sized flowers. The sepals are obtuse and pubescent within, the petals are rounded apically, and the lip is minutely verrucose at the obtuse apex with thick, erect margins below the middle. A midline callus is present below the middle." Luer 1999

Synonyms Anathallis mediocarinata (C.Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia mediocarinata (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia mediocarinata; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as anathallis mediocarinata photo fide;

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