Pleurothallis xyloura [Luer & Hirtz] comb. novo. Pfahl 2013 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Woody Tailed Pleurothallis [refers to the thick sepaline tails]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 short, ribbed sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a prostrate to descending, creeping, arising from the ramicaul, filiform, , to 2" [5 cm] long including the .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long peduncle, lax, successively several flowered inflorescence with half as long as the pedicel floral bract.

"Most similar to P samacensis but the spicules of P xyloura are much reduced, the tails of the sepals are thickened and the fring of the petals is intense but short." Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea xyloura (Luer & Hirtz) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):9 Doucette 2022 ; *Muscarella xyloura Luer & Hirtz 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella xyloura;

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

Orchid Rev. 122: 77 J M H Shaw 2014 as Specklinia xyloura;

* Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):9 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea xyloura

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