Pleurothallis strumosa Ames 1925 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by © Kyoko Imai and Flickr Photo Website
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez G. and his Flickr Costa Rica Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Swollen Pleurothallis [refers to the base of the column]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Guatemala and Costa Rica in wet montane and cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a fascile of successive single flowers arising from the ramicaul on an erect, 1" to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm]long, filamentous inflorescence
Synonyms Muscarella strumosa (Ames) Luer 2006; Specklinia strumosa (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 as Muscarella strumosa photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Verapazia strumosa; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella strumosa photo fide
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