Pleurothallis analoga [Luer & Toscano] in ed. SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing of Pabstiella analoga by Carl Luer

Common Name The Similar to Pleurothallis [refers to its simularity to P wacketii ]

Flower Size .4" [1c m]

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil at elevations around 300 to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 ribbed, tightly fitting, thin margin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, more or less mottled with purple, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 2.8 to 5.2" [7 to 13 cm] long, from near the apex of the ramicaul arising through a spathe, a 5.2 to 8.4" [13 to 21 cm] long overall, loose, strict, successively several flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.

"This species is similar to to P wacketii . but differs because of narrower sepals and smaller petals and lip. Instead of verrucose, the lip is minutely densely spiculate above the middle, and the disc is free of a callus, especially at the basal junction with the claw." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms *Pabstiella analoga Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 370. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella analoga drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Pabstiella analoga drawing fide;

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