Pleurothallis recula Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986 Photos by Holub Pavel and his Facebook Page
Plant and Flowers Photos by Rollinkansas and The Orchid Forum Website
Type sheet Photo by Epidendra
Common Name or Meaning The Little Thing Pleurothallis
Flower Size .15" [3mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Napo Ecuador in forests at elevations around 350 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipticl-obovate, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a filiform, .6 to .8" [15 to 20 mm] long, fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms Specklinia recula (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo not; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia recula; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia recula drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo no?; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia recula photo fide
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