Pleurothallis pisinna Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

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Photos by © Grazyna Sieminska and Forum Orchidarium Pl.

Inflorescence and Plant

Photo by © Philip A. Gonsiska

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Common Name The Very Small Pleurothallis

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras at elevations of 150 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall winter and spring on a slender, erect, 1/4" [8 to 9 mm] long, loosely, sucessively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and is shorter than the leaves

Synonyms Specklinia pisinna (Luer) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia pisinna; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Specklinia pisinna; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia pisinna drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 10 Plate 1093 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Specklinia pisinna drawing fide; Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2012 as Specklinia pisinna photo not; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Specklinia pisina photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Specklinia pisinna; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia pisinna photo hmm not

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