Pleurothallis asperilinguis Rchb. f. & Warsz. 1854 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Rough Tongued Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru without locality as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicaul provided with a tubeur bract in the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceopus, elliptical, obtuse t orounded apically, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on a loose, distichous, subtended by a spathe arising from an annulus, peduncle .8" [2 cm] long, 2.8 t0 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorecence with as long to just longer than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying yellow, glabrous externally, shortly pubescent within, subcarinate sepals and transluscent yellow petals.
"P asperlinguis is separated by its broad, non-acuminate sepals, the broadly obtuse petals two thirds as long as the spals, and a small lip half the length of the petals, The lip is narrowly obovate with the disc shallowly concave between a pair of calli above the middle that merge into a spiculate-verrucose callus near the apical margin." C A Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis asperilinguis (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboltia asperilinguis (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis aurea var. asperilinguis (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Foldats 1959; Specklinia asperilinguis (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Luer 2004; Stelis asperilinguis (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 114 Rchb.f 1854;
Acta Biol. Venez. 2: 373 Foldats 1959 as Pleurothallis aurea var. asperilinguis;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:247 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis asperlinguis;
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 asperlinguis;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis asperlinguis;
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