Pleurothallis brighamella Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Brigham-Like Pleurothallis [Refers to its being similar to P brighamii}
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Chiriqui province of western Panama without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls carrying a single, apical, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, slender, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, congested, fascile of successive single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, imbricating, acuminate, just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Very similar to Pleurothallis brighamii but differs in the smaller plant, smaller red flecked sepals and a column without a calli.
Synonyms Pleurothallis brighamella Luer 2000; (Luer) Luer 2006; Sarcinula brighamella [Luer] Luer 2006; Specklinia brighamella (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:256 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Specklina brighamella;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sarcinula brighamella;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sarcinula brighamella drawing fide
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