Pleurothallis producta Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Extended Pleurothallis [refers to the long inflorescence with well spaced flowers]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Pichincha, Tungurahua and Azuay provinces of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 2000 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, arising from the base of the ramicaul, 10" [25 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescnece with acute, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Part of the P grobyi/P picta alliance but differs in the markedly elongate, distantly flowered raceme with longer-pedicellate flowers. The flowers are practically inseparable from others in the complex." Luer 2006
Synonyms Specklinia producta (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 176 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:259 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklina producta;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia producta
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia producta drawing good
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