Pleurothallis clavigera Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Club Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the sepals]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador without location as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a fascile of filamentous, arising laterally from the ramicaul1, .2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, successive single flowered inflorescence with a half as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Distingusished by the small oblanceolate leaves, a fascile of successive flowers borne near the tips of the leaves. The sepals with caudate-clavate apices, short, acute, sparsely ciliate petals and a thick lip with a convex, rounded, ciliate apex and small basal lobes. An oval shiny patch below the middle is similar to that of P aristata" Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea clavigera (Luer) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 2022 as Andreettaea clavigera; Muscarella clavigera (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia clavigera (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Selbyana 3: 268 Luer 1977 drawing fide;

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 217 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:257 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Specklinia clavigera;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella clavigera

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella clavigera drawing fide;

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea clavigera

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