Pleurothallis simpliciglossa Loefgr. 1918 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

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Common Name or Meaning The Simple Lipped Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in southern Brazil in wet primary forests at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 membraneous brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, stiff, olive-green, obovate, faintly conduplicate, finely attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the early winter and late spring on 1 to 2, erect, 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm] long, mostly simultaneously 6 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Anathallis simpliciglossa (Loefgr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia simpliciglossa (Loefgr.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis simpliciglossa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia simplicoglossa; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide

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