Pleurothallis barbulata Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

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Another Flower NOT Notice column unwinged and with apical teeth

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Plant and Flowers

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HOLOTYPE Drawing

Drawing by H Focke

TYPE Drawing of P abjecta

TYPE Drawing of P abjecta © by Ames

Drawings

Drawing by © Carl Luer

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Common Name The Small Beard Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nayarit?, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Belize, Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala, El Salvador, Comayagua province of Honduras, Nicaragua, Alajuela, Cartago, San Jose, Guanacaste, Puntarenas provinces of Costa Rica, Panama, Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia, Falcon state of Venezuela, Esmeraldas, Azuay and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador, San Martin department of Peru, La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz departments of Bolivia and Venezuela in rainforests on very thin branches at elevations of 150 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with very short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spathulate to obovate, emarginate, coriaceous, obtuse to bidentate apically, gradually conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a basal, thread-like, long-pedunculate, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with infundibuliform, mucronate, slightly carinate, membraneous, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Characterized by the minute, caespitose habit with elliptical leaves borne by short ramicauls. The flower is produced successively in a congested, fasciculated raceme at the tip of the peduncle, the sepals are glabrous with the laterals mostly connate, the petals are acute and minutely ciliate and the protruding lip is oblong, longitudinally callous and ciliate." Luer 2006

There are several related species that make up the P barbulata complex and thay are P imberbis, P minima P minutissimaand P steinbuchiae

Synonyms Anathallis barbulata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Humboldtia barbulata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia barbulata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Lankesteriana barbulata (Lindl.) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia barbulata (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis abjecta Ames 1923; Pleurothallis barbata H. Focke 1853; Pleurothallis ciliilabia Schltr. 1923; Pleurothallis nubensis Foldats 1968; Specklinia barbulata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Specklinia minutissima (Luer) Luer 2004; Specklinia pereziana Kolan. 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 11: 227 Focke 1853 as P barbata;

*Fol. Orchid. 9: 40 Lindley 1859;

Schedul. Orch. 2: 18-19 Ames 1923 as P abjecta;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952 as P abjecta drawing fide;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing ok/not?;

AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing not - P minima;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P minima drawing fide;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as P nubensis drawing ok;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 213 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;

Miniature Orchids Northen 1980;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1083 Dodson 1984 as Pleurothallis abjecta drawing fide;

Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Pleurothallis abjecta;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;

Orquideología 20: 218. Luer 1996 as P minutissima drawing fide;

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 548 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide;

Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 ed. 2: 1141 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P aondae drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

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

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

Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 518 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Anathalis barbulata drawing 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 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 barbulata;

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 minutissima;

Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 drawing fide;

Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 as Anathallis barbulata;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systemeatics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia barbulata

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systemeatics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia barbulata not = P minutissima;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing good;

Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis aff barbulata drawing good/ photo good;

Lankesteriana 13(3): 326. [Lindl.] Karremans 2014 as Lankesteriana barbulata;

Richardiana 14: 151 F.J.de Jesus, M.R.Miranda & Chiron 2014

AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana barbulata photo fide;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Lankestriana barbulata;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana barbulata photo fide;

Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Lankesteriana barbulata photo fide;

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