Pleurothallis stenophylla F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Narrow-Leafed Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia in shady, wet tropical montane forests at elevations around 1900 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 basal tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, rigid, narrowly elliptical, narrowly cuneate into the base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, subtended by a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaulloose, secund, simultaneously several flowered, racemose, 1.6 to 4.4" [4 to 11 cm] long inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the loosely flowered raceme about as long as the thick leaf that are less than .4" [1 cm] wide. The flowers are smaller but similar to P acuminata with an acute, narrowly acuminate leaf." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis stenophylla (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis melanopus F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Specklinia stenophylla (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer 2004; Stelis melanopus (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 442 F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Ibisch & Vasquez 2000 drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:251 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis stenophylla; 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 stenophylla;
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