Pleurothallis hastata Ames 1908 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing and Collection sheet

Photo by Diego Bogarin/TYPE Drawing by Oakes Ames and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

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

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala at elevations around 350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with short ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-lanceolate, tridentate apically, prominently dorsally carinate medially leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a filiform, thin, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single, to 5 flowered inflorescence.

"The flowers appear to have been whitish with purple spots, the labellum deep purple." Ames 1908

Synonyms *Andreettaea hastata (Ames) A.Doucette First published in the Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):4 Doucette 2022; Specklinia hastata (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchidaceae 2: 268-269 Ames 1908 Drawing fide;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;

Lindleyana 16(4): 258. (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Specklinia hastata;

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):4 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea hastata

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