Pleurothallis casualis Ames 1925 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

Photo by © M Muñoz

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Oakes Ames and The Epidendra Website

Drawing

Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The By Chance Pleurothallis [obscure]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in San Jose, Alajuela and Guanacaste provinces of Costa Rica and Panama province of Panama at elevations around 1150 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect to suberect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, filiform, .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, loose, successively few flowered inflorescence with just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

Similar to P barbulata but differs in the short, lax raceme and glabrous petals contracted above instead of a fasciculate raceme.

Synonyms Anathallis casualis (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Lankesteriana casualis (Ames) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia casualis (Ames) Luer 2006; Specklinia casualis (Ames) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Schedul. Orch. 9: 30-33, f. 5. Ames 1925 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana 16/4:248 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Anathallis casualis;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia casualis;

Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia casualis

Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia casualis drawing fide;

Lankesteriana 12[3]: 327 Karremans 2014 as Lankestriana casualis;

AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana casualis photo hmm;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana casualis photo fide

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