Pleurothallis angustilabia Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Alatae Luer 1986

Plant and Inflorescnece

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Drawing

Drawing by © Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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Common Name The Narrow Lipped Pleurothallis

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in premontane to montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, more or less aproximate, 3 to 4 jointed, ramicauls carrying several close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 2 to numerous, much shorter than the leaf, rarely to 3.12" [7.8 cm] long, loosely to 12 flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Easily distinguished from P obovata by the caespitose habit, the wider leaves, longer, looser racemes and longer sepals." Luer 1999

Synonyms Anathallis angustilabia (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia angustilabia (Schltr.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 71 Schlechter 1921

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 16: 9 Schweinfurth 1953 as P citrina var elliptica;

Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing good;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:247 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis angustilabia;

Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003;

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 angustilabia;

An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 as Anathallis angustilabia drawing/photos fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis anGUSTILABIA photo fide

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