Pleurothallis catoxys Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Sharply Pointed Pleurothallis [refers to all six floral parts]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin tuubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising laterally from the ramicaul, loose, flexible, flexuous, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, including the filiform .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the small habit with loose racemes of flowers with long tailed sepals andpetals. The apex of the minutely denticulate lip is long-acuminate." Luer 2006
Synonyms Andreettaea catoxys (Luer & Hirtz) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1): 2 (2022; Muscarella catoxys (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Specklinia catoxys (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 151 Luer & Hirtz 1996 Drawing fide
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 catoxys;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella catoxys
Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella catoxys drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020as Muscarella catoxys photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea catoxys
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