Pleurothallis segregatifolia Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez
Common Name or Meaning The Segregate Leafed Pleurothallis
Flower Size .15" [3mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 1200 to 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly to broadly elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, lax, distichous, flexible, flexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with oblique floral bracts.
This species has great variety of flower color from brown striped to bright red with yellow tips.
Synonyms Pleurothallis calyptrosepala L.O.Williams 1942; Specklinia segregatifolia (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003; Verapazia segregatifolia (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Chiron & Szlach. 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing fide/photo ok; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1125 Hamer 1984 drawing good except fractiflex, bracted inflorescence; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 94 Hagsater 1990 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia segregatifolia; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia segregatifolia drawing fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 as Specklinia segratifolia photo fide; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Specklinia segregatifolia photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Specklinia segregatifolia; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella segregatifolia photo fide
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