Pleurothallis striata H.Focke 1851 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986 Drawing by Carl Luer

Drawing Drawing by Cogniaux and Wikimedia Website

Common Name The Striped Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam and Ecuador in lowland forests at elevations of sea level to 100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms at moist any time of the year on a capillary, 1.2 to 1.8" [ 3 to 4.5 cm] long, congested, racemose, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from the ramicaul with imbricating, thin, tubular, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Humboltia striata (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Sarcinula striata (H.Focke) Luer 2006; Specklinia striata (H.Focke) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia striata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sarcinula striata drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia striata photo fide

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