Pleurothallis regalis Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986 TYPE for the SECTION
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Royal Pleurothallis [Refers to the flowers color]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador in shady, wet tropical forests at elevations around 1250 to 2000 [3000] meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, superposed, slender to stout, 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying an erect, coriaceous, single, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer on a loose, subsecund, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, racemose, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence arising from an annulus just below the apex of the ramicaul.
"Similar to P acuminata but differs in the longewr and denser pubescence of the inner surfaces of the sepals and the lip which is widest below the middle instead of above the middle, the lip is tricallose with the middle callus the largest and extending to near the apical margin. The margins are minutely denticulate-erose and the broadly apical margin and middle callus are bright purple in contrast to the rest of the yellow flower." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis regalis (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia regalis (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 210 Dodson 1980 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis regalis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia regalis;
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