Pleurothallis abbreviata Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by Eric Hagsater
Photo courtesy of The Orchid Source Website.
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jnay Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Abbreviated Pleurothallis
Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]
Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in very wet montane cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate, acute leaf that gradually narrows basally into the elongate petiole that blooms in the summer and fall on a fractiflex, 1.28" [3.2 cm] long, successively single, several flowered, inflorescence with minutely verrucose, just shorter than the pedicel and longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the densely and successively flowered raceme that eventually surpasses the leaf about twice its length. The sepals are obtuse, the laterals being connate into a synsepal. The petals are broad and sharply long-acuminate. Mast distinguishing are the two longitudinal calli on the lip that protrude at the apex as two lobes." Luer 2006
Synonyms Anathallis abbreviata (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Lankesteriana abbreviata (Schltr.) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia abbreviata (Schltr.) Luer 2006; Specklinia abbreviata (Schltr.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 352 Schlechter 1912;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952;
Selbyana 1: 220 Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 209 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing good;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:267 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis abbreviata;
Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 517 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Anathalis abbreviata drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide to 1st photo;
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 abbreviata;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia abbreviata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia abbreviata drawing lip not right;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Anathallis abbreviata;
Lankesteriana 12[3]: 326 Karremans 2014 as Lankestriana abbreviata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana abbreviata;
Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 as Lankesteriana abbreviata photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana abbreviata photo fide
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