Pleurothallis corynetes Luer & R.Vásquez 1980 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

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

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Common Name The Club Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the clubbed apex of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped 2 thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erect, arising laterally from the ramicaul, flexible, flexuous, looose, 3.2"+" [8 cm+] long, including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with a much less to half as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Distinguished by the comparitively large flowers with purple-spotted, long tailed sepals, shorter tailed petals that are long ciliate above the base and a protruding dark-purple, clavate tip of the lip." Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea corynetes (Luer & R.Vásquez) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 2022; Muscarella corynetes (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006; Specklinia corynetes (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 46: 363 Luer & Vasquez 1980;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:257 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia corynetes;

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

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

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea corynetes

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