Pleurothallis producta Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

Plant and Flowers> Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Inflorescence Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Extended Pleurothallis [refers to the long inflorescence with well spaced flowers]

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 2000 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 10" [25 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescnece arising from the base of the ramicaul.

Synonyms Specklinia producta (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina producta; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia producta drawing good

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