Pleurothallis thomasiae Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842
TYPE Drawing by Luer
Holotype by T Hawkins and The Epidendra Website
LATE
Common Name Thomas's Pleuorothallis [Thomas Hawkins Collector of the species current]
Flower Size
Found in Olancho department of Honduras in dense hardwood forest at elevations around 1500 to 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, compressed above the middle ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical,acute to narrowly obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect subtended by a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, rachis .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, lax, distihcous, strict, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Closely related to P villosa but differs in the smaller, yellow, unspotted flowers bourne by short pedicels basrely as long as the floral bracts." Luer 2000
Synonyms Effusiella thomasiae (Luer) Luer 2007; Specklinia thomasiae (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis thomasiae (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 16(4): 267. Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis thomasiae;
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 2004as Specklinia thomasiae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Specklinia thomasiae;
Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Effusiella thomasiae
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