Pleurothallis quinqueseta Ames 1925 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Karremans
Common Name or Meaning The Five Bristles Pleurothallis [refers to the tails of the sepal and petals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 1700 meters as mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an suberect, flexuous, flexible, loose, gradually lengthening, 2.8" [7 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising from near the middle of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Muscarella quinqueseta (Ames) Luer 2006; Specklinia quinqueseta (Ames) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia quinqueseta; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella quinqueseta drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Verapazia quinqueseta; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella quinqueseta photo fide
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