Pleurothallis seriata Lindl. 1840 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

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Common Name The Series Pleurothallis [refers to the successive flowering infloresence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil in rain forests at elevations around 400 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to erect ramicauls enveloped in youth by 2 to 3, scarious, tubular, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, obovate-oblanceolate, to oblanceolate, rounded and tridenticulate apically, attenuate and petiolate below into the base leaf that blooms mostly in the late spring and early summer on 1 to a few, to 1.6 to 5.6" [4 to 14 cm] long, fractiflex, laxly few, successively flowered inflorescence with less than half as long as the pedicel floral bracts and holding the flowers well above the leaves.

Synonyms Anathallis seriata (Lindl.) Luer & Toscano 2009; Effusiella seriata (Lindl.) Baptista 2011; Humboldtia seriata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella diffusiflora (C.Schweinf.) Luer & Toscano 2011; Pabstiella seriata (Lindl.) F.Barros & C.F.Hall 2012; Panmorphia seriata (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis diffusiflora C.Schweinf. 1935; Pleurothallis sphaeroglossa Hoehne 1938; Specklinia seriata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26(Misc.): 75 Lindley 1840;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia seriata;

Flora Brasilensis Vol III Part 4:487 Cogniaux 1896;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 80 Schweinfurth 1935 as P diffusiflora;

Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 1(1): 11 Hoehne 1938 as P sphaeroglossa;

Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as P sphaeroglossa drawing fide;

Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Segunda Parte Foldats 1970 as P diffusiflora drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P sphaeroglossa drawing fide;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P diffusiflora drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986;

Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing ok;

AOS Bulletin Vol 64 #7 1995 as P sphaeroglossa photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:259 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia seriata;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia seriata

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia seriata drawing fide;

The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis seriata

Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 374. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella diffusiflora;

Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 374. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella seriata;

Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 9: 339 Baptista 2011 as Effusiella seriata;

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