Pleurothallis ximenae Luer 2004 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842
Photo by © Ron Parsons
Common Name Ximena's Pleurothallis [Mrs Portilla Ecuadorian Orchid Nurserywoman current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2, loose, tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on a finely long-pubescent, weak, flexible, pendent, lax, distichous, subflexuous, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Effusiella ximenae (Luer) Luer 2007;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia ximenae; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Effussiella ximenae; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Specklinia ximenaephoto fide
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