Pleurothallis pseudocheila Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

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TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Luer

EARLIER

Common Name The False Lip Pleurothallis [an allusion to the converging petals under the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1200 to 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 above the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the earlier fall on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe near trhe apex of the ramicaul, erect, distichous, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long including the 1.l2" [3 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carries non-resupinate flowers.

"Characterized by a slender ramicaul, a narrowly elliptical leaf, a lax, distichous raceme about as long as the leaf and non-resupinate flowers with the sepals carinate externally and densely pubescent within. Most unusual is the petals with concave apices that converge in front of the lip. The true lip is small, ovate-unguiculate and minutely pubescent-verrucose." Luer 2000

Synonyms Effusiella pseudocheila (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2007; Specklinia pseudocheila (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2004; Stelis pseudocheila (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideología 16(2): 173. Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 Drawing fide;

Lindleyana 16(4): 266 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase, 2001 as Stelis pseudocheila;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia pseduocheila;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Apoda Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Effusiella pseudocheila

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