Pleurothallis pachyphyta Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 TYPE for the SECTION
Photo by Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Broad Stemmed Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Ecuador and northern Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, erect, dense, 3.2 to 6.4" [ 8 to 16 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf with tublar floral bracts.
Synonyms Anathallis pachyphyta (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Panmorphia pachyphyta (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia pachyphyta (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis pachyphyta; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing Fide to drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia pachyphyta; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia pachyphyta drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis pachyphyta photo fide
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