Pleurothallis aryter Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Mentosae Luer 1986
Photo by © Byron Rinke
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Ladle-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica, Antioquia department of Colombia, Huanuco departemnt of Huanuco department of Peru and Bolivia without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, shortly creeping epiphyte with suberect, stout, ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect to pendant, arising laterally from a node on the ramicaul, lax, subflexuous, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, successively 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Broadly elliptical, short stemmed leaves are produced on a short, creeping rhizome. At intervals of time the short pendent raceme produces a single, ivory colored flower covered with minute specks of red purple. At the bottome of the stem, the large, concave synsepal is uppermost on the flower giving the appearance of a long-handled dipper." Luer 1976
Synonyms Anthereon aryter (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pabstiella aryter (Luer) F.Barros 2002; Ronaldella aryter (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia aryter (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3(1-2): 54-56, f. 130 Luer 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16/4:252 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Anthereon aryter;
Bradea 8: 296 F Barros 2002 as Pabstiella aryter;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 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 aryter;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Ronaldella aryter
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Ronaldella aryter drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Pabstiella aryter photo fide
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