Pleurothallis scabrata Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Inflorescence photo by © The Ecuagenera Website

Common Name The Scabrous Pleurothallis [refers to the serrulate margins of the petals]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 1600 to 2600 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the ill defined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect to arching, secund, loose, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long including the 4" [10 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence arising through a narrow spathe and has a tubular, oblique floral bract.

Synonyms Effusiella scabrata (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Humboltia scabrata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis humboldtiana Luer 1976; Specklinia scabrata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Stelis scabrata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 as P humboldtiana ok; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia scabrata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Effusiella scabrata

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