Pleurothallis purpurella Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
Photo by © Byron Rinke
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Small Purple Flowered Pleurothallis
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Colombia on the western slopes of the western Cordillera of the Andes 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, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below intothe subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, eret, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts.
Similar to P brighamii but is distinguished by the small habit, very small, purple flowers, an unguilate lip and a column devoid of calli." Luer 1999
Synonyms Pleurothallis purpurella Luer 2000; Sarcinula purpurella (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia purpurella (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sarcinula purpurella drawing fide;
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