SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
Characterized by the succesively flowered, congested inflorescence arising from the apex of the filiform peduncle, The lateral sepals are semiconnate to connate and the petals are often dilated along the lower margin. The fleshy to thick lip is often verrucose with more or less erect lateral margins or lobes below the middle that are often continuous with calli from the disc, similar to Subgenus Acianthera.
TYPE for the SECTION
! Pleurothallis areldii Luer 1978
- Pleurothallis acanthodes Luer 1975 Ecuador and Bolivia
- Pleurothallis acicularis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 Guatemala and Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis acoana [Bogarin} in ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis acrisepala Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis alabidentata [Sambin & Aucourd] in ed.French Guiana
- Pleurothallis alajuelensis [Karremans & Pupulin] in ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis alexii A.H.Heller 1966 Nicaragua
- ! Pleurothallis areldii Luer 1978 Panama, Colombia
- Pleurothallis barbae Schltr.1923 Costa Rica & Panama
- Pleurothallis berolinensis [Bogarin} in. ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis brachiloba Hoehne 1929 Sao Paulo Brazil
- Pleurothallis brighamella Luer 1999 Panama
- Pleurothallis brighamii S. Watson 1888 Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis calderae Luer 2001 Colombia
- Pleurothallis caraguatatubensis [M.R.Miranda, F.J.de Jesus & Chiron] in ed. Brazil
- Pleurothallis chontalensis A.H.Heller & A.D.Hawkes 1966 Costa Rica and Nicaragua
- Pleurothallis conceicionensis [Chiron & N.Sanson] in ed. Brazil
- Pleurothallis condylata Luer 1976 Costa Rica and Panama
- Pleurothallis corniculata [Sw.] Lindl. 1842 Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba and Jamaica
- Pleurothallis coronula Luer 1999 Colombia
- Pleurothallis cycesis Luer & R.Escobar 1996 Colombia
- Pleurothallis deltoglossa Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907 Brazil
- Pleurothallis displosa Luer 1999 Panama
- Pleurothallis exilis C.Schweinf. 1951 Venezuela
- Pleurothallis gersonii [Bogarín & Karremans] in ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis glandulosa Ames 1923 Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana and Venezuela
- Pleurothallis guttulata Cogn. 1896 Brazil
- Pleurothallis leptantha Schltr. 1920 Colombia
- Pleurothallis piratiningana Hoehne 1937 Brazil
- Pleurothallis prostrata Lindl. 1858 Cuba
- Pleurothallis psichion Luer 1996 Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis purpurella Luer 1999 Colombia
- Pleurothallis pyrsodes Rchb. f. 1876 Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis scolopax Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia
- Pleurothallis simmleriana Rendle 1900 Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
- Pleurothallis striata H.Focke 1851 Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis tirimbina Karremans, Salguero & M.Cedeño 2020
- Pleurothallis trichyphis Rchb.f. 1865 Cuba
- Pleurothallis uniflora Lindl. 1836 French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela and Northern Brazil
- Pleurothallis vierlingii [Baumbach] in ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis vittariifolia Schltr. 1923 Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
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