Pleurothallis xanthella Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Yellowish Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations of 450 to 650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with narrowly elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 1" long, exceeding the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Muscarella xanthella (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia xanthella (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella xanthella drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella xanthella photo fide
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