Pleurothallis kennedyi Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photos by © The Species Identification Task Force Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Kennedy's Pleurothallis [American Pleurothallid enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in San Martin department of Peru without elevational information as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular 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 winter on an erect, arising from the base of the leaf through a narrow spathe, distantly and simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence with thin, , much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the shortly fringegd petals, short, thick, orange tails of thesepals and a thick, minutely verrucose lip with thick, erect, lateral lobes." Luer 2006
Synonyms Andreettaea kennedyi (Luer) A.Doucette First published in the Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 Doucette 2022 ; Muscarella kennedyi (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia kennedyi (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 326. Luer 1977 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:258 Pridgeon and Chase 2001 as Specklinia kennedyi
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella kennedyi
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella kennedyi drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella kennedyi photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea kennedyi
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