Pleurothallis murex Rchb.f. 1865 Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Seashell Pleurothallis

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in central and eastern Cuba in semi open places in vegetation of the mogotes or charrascales at elevations of 200 and 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ascending to pendent, enveloped below the middle by 1 to 2 scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, triangular in transverse section, broadly ovate to suborbicular, rounded to obtuse, shortly apiculate, green and verrucate on the upper side, green and rough on the lower side; base obtuse to rounded; margin irregularily denticulate to profoundly crenulate leaves that blooms on a terminal, pendent or ascending, 1-5 per stem, .6" [1.5 cm] long, glabrous, successivley few-flowered, inflorescence subtended at the base by a conduplicate, carinate and crenate sheath with an annulus with two or three bracts;

Synonyms Acianthera murex (Rchb.f.) Luer 2009; Specklinia murex (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing good; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia murex; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing hmm

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