Pleurothallis hystricosa Luer 1994 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATE 
Common Name The Prickly Pleurothallis [refer to the sepals and ovary]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Huila department of Colombia in dwarf forests at elevations around 2500 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a capillary, arising laterally from the ramicaul, .52" [1.3 cm] long, distantly, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"P hystricosa is distinguished by the tiny, caespitose habit with petiolate leaves; proportionally large, long-spiculate ovaries; carinate-spiculate sepals; subulate petals: and a trilobed lip with uncinate, lateral lobes. The collector noted that the flower colors were red and green. Closely allied to P trimytera but it differs by having microscopic petals." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia hystricosa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Andinia hystricosa;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XIV Luer 1996; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia hystricosa photo fide
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