SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Characterized by the small caespitose plants with a loose, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying flowers with membraneous, free sepals or the laterals may be connate to near the middle. The petals are variously lacerate, raely entire and the apex is commonly long-attenuate. The thick, fleshy, often verrucose lip has more or less erect, lateral margins below the middle and are often continuous with calli from the disc and the base may be membraneously bilobulate.
TYPE for the SECTION
! Pleurothallis alata A.Rich. & Gal. 1845
- ! Pleurothallis alata A.Rich. & Gal. 1845 Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis ancora Luer & R.Vásquez 1980 Bolivia
- Pleurothallis aristata Hook. 1939 Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
- Pleurothallis barberiana Rchb. f. 1881 Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis bota-caucanensis [Uribe-Velez and Sauleda] in ed Colombia
- Pleurothallis cabellensis Rchb.f. 1850 Colombia, Venezuela
- Pleurothallis catoxys Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis cestrochila Garay 1973 Colombia and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis claviculata Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis clavigera Luer 1977 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis coeloglossa Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador and Peru
- Pleurothallis corynetes Luer & R.Vásquez 1980 Bolivia
- Pleurothallis cryptophyta [Barb Rodr.] in ed Brazil
- Pleurothallis cynocephala Luer 1979
- Pleurothallis delicatula Lindl. 1859 Jamaica
- Pleurothallis divexa Ames 1924 Costa Rica, Colombia
- Pleurothallis echinodes Luer & R.Escobar 1983 Colombia
- Pleurothallis exesilabia A.H. Heller & A.D. Hawkes 1966 Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis fuchsii Luer 1975 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis furcatipetala Luer & Hirtz 2001 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis hastata Ames 1908 Guatemala
- Pleurothallis helenae Fawc. & Rendle 1909 Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Jamaica
- Pleurothallis herpestes Luer 1979 Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis ichthyonekys Luer 1977 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis infinita Luer 1997 publ. 1998 Bolivia
- Pleurothallis intonsa Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia
- Pleurothallis kennedyi Luer 1977
- Pleurothallis latilabris Foldats 1968 Colombia and Venezuela
- Pleurothallis lipothrix Luer 1984 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis llamachoi Luer 1998 Cuba
- Pleurothallis longilabris Lindl. 1858 Cuba
- Pleurothallis macroblepharis Rchb. f. 1874 Colombia and Ecuador
- Pleurothallis megalops Luer 1982 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis mucronata Lindl. ex Cogn. 1909Cuba
- Pleurothallis neotapantiensis [Mel.Fernández & Bogarín] in ed. Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis neowerneri [Luer] in ed Ecxuadpr
- Pleurothallis obliquipetala Acuña & C.Schweinf. 1938 Cuba
- Pleurothallis oblonga Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis perangusta Luer 1976 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis quinqueseta Ames 1925 Costa Rica and Panama
- Pleurothallis rojohnum [Luer] ined. Ecuador
- Pleurothallis samacensis Ames 1923 Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil
- Pleurothallis schudelii Luer & Hirtz 2002 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis segregatifolia Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis semperflorens Lindl. 1859 Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern Brazil
- Pleurothallis setosa C. Schweinf. 1941 Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis sibatensis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 Colombia
Pleurothallis sp # 7 Ecuador
Pleurothallis sp #9 Colombia
- Pleurothallis strumosa Ames 1925 Guatemala, Costa Rica
- Pleurothallis stumpflei Luer 1979 Ecuador and Peru
- Pleurothallis tamboensis Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia
- Pleurothallis tempestalis Luer 1977 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis tentaculifera Luer & Hirtz ? Ecuador
- Pleurothallis trullifera Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis tsubotae Luer & R.Escobar 1996 Colombia
- Pleurothallis villosilabia Luer & Hirtz 2002 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis xanthella Luer 1975 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis xyloura [Luer & Hirtz] comb. novo. Pfahl 2013 Ecuador
- Pleurothallis zephyrina Rchb.f. 1855 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
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