Pleurothallis spathilabia Schltr. 1924 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATER THROUGH

Common Name The Spathulate Lip Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Narino department of Colombia and Manabi province of Ecuador at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another 2 to 3 at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on 1 to 2, loose, subsecund, 4.4 to 7.2" [11 to 18 cm] long including the 2" [5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul.

"Distinguished by the broadly elliptical, obtuse leaves surpassed by a twice larger, subsecund, many flowered raceme. The sepals are ovate, acute and minutely ciliate, the petals are oblong and retuse at the apex and the lip is broadly obovate, pyriform or spathulate with a broadly rounded, featureless apex." Luer 1999

Synonyms Anathallis spathilabia (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia spathilabia (Schltr.) Luer 2004; Stelis spathilabia (Schltr.) Karremans 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 261 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2005 as Specklinia spathilabia; LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis apathilabia

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