Pleurothallis scolnikiae (Luer & Endara) Karremans 2015 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842

TYPE Drawing as Effusiells scolnikiae by Carl Luer

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Common Name or Meaning Scolnik's Pleurothallis [American Collector of the type]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 950 to 1850 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath in the middle third, another below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a pair of erect, peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, arising through a spathe .52" [1.2 cm] long, from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 6" [15 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence, with the oblique floral bract longer than the pedicel and carrying flowers with maroon, glabrous exernally, pubecent within sepals, membraneous petals and a thick lip.

Synonyms Effusiella scolnikiae Luer & Endara 2007; Stelis scolnikiae (Luer & Endara) J.M.H.Shaw 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIX Luer 2007 as Effusiella scolnikiae Drawing fide

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