Pleurothallis oblanceolata L.O.Williams 1946 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Oblanceolate Pleurothallis [refers to the narrowly obovate leaves ]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found Oaxaca Mexico at elevations around 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a loose, subflexuous, .4" [1 cm] long including the .2" [5 mm] long, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.

Synonyms Anathallis oblanceolata (L.O.Williams) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003; Panmorphia oblanceolata (L.O.Williams) Luer 2006; Specklinia oblanceolata (L.O.Williams) Luer 2004

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

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