Pleurothallis adrianae Luer & Sijm 2002 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
TYPE drawing by Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name Adriana's Pleurothallis [Dutch wife of the collector current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locational data as a medium sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls with a sheath above the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a fascile of several, peduncle .2" [.5 cm] long, subtended by a spathe .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm] long, from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, rachis .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, loose secund, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with tubular, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow green, glabrous, ovate-triangular sepals, yellow green, narrowly ovate petals and a dark purple, oblong lip.
This species is the largest vegetatively in the subgenus Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae but closely related to P citrina and P obovata. It is distinguished by the much larger habit with a stout ramicaul over 8" [2 cm] long and a large petiolate base leaf. Several short, secund, few flowered racemes are produced simultaneously. The sepals are yellow green and acute and the petals aresimilar in color and acuminate. The lip is oblong and dark purple." Luer 2002
Synonyms Anathallis adrianae (Luer & Sijm) Karremans 2016; Specklinia adrianae (Luer & Sijm) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 Drawing fide;
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 adriannae; Phytotaxa 272: 27 Karremans 2016 as Anathalis adrianae;
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