Pleurothallis aristata Hook. 1939 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by © Eladio Fernandez
TYPE Drawing by Hooker
Common Name The Spiked Pleurothallis
Flower Size about 1" [2.4 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in rain to cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a very short, terete ramicaul carrying a single apical, narrowly oblanceolate, apically tridentate leaf with a channeled petiole and 3 imbricate basal sheaths that blooms at any time of the year on a single, capillary, fractiflex, to 4" [10 cm] long, distichously laxly several flowered, racemose inflorescence that is much longer than the leaf with several, basal, imbricate, papery bracts and minute floral bracts.
Recent studies by Karremans and S Viera U have segregated P divexa and P barberiana from P aristata based on the bifurcate inflorescence of P diverxa and the bulbous lip of P barberiana.
Synonyms Andreettaea aristata (Hook.) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 2022 ; Humboldtia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis urbaniana Rchb. f. 1885; Specklinia aristata (Hook.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Nat. Hist. 2(11): 329-330, pl. 15 Hook. 1839 drawing fide;
Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 3: 279 Rchb.f 1885as P urbaniana;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia aristata;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as P urbaniana;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909;
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as P urbaniana drawing ok;
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974;
Selbyana 1: 172 Luer 1975 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 349 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 photo good;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:256 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Specklina aristata;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella aristata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella aristata drawing fide;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Verapazia aristata;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea aristata
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