Pleurothallis trulla Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Scoop Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the lip with a claw]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Peru without locational data and only a leaf with flowrs was preserved so we assume that it is a small sized, presumably epiphytic with a single, erect, fleshy, coriaceous, elliptical, obtusesubacute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, erect, peduncle 3.2" [8 cm] long, arising from the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, loose, secund, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence, with as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying flowers without colo data.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XX Luer 2000 Drawing fide

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