Pleurothallis chlorina Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Green Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Loja province of Ecuador in relatively dry, scrub forests at elevations around 2300 meters as a mini-miniature, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, erect, ovate, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate below and contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early spring on an erect, arising on the back of the leaf through a spathe at the base of the leaf, .32 to .4" [8 to 10 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorecence and carrying a non-resupinate, yellow-green flower with an oblique, as long to longer than the pedicel floral bract.

"Characterized by thick, ovate leaves with twisted petioles that permit the proportionally large, non-resupinate flower to be borne on the back side of the leaf. The blade of the lip is serrate and supported by a long claw. A narrow mentum is formed by the long column-foot with the synsepal." Luer 2000

Synonyms Effusiella chlorina (Luer) Luer 2007; Specklinia chlorina (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis chlorina (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 47: 57 1980;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:261 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Stelis chlorina;

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 chlorina;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-prorepentia Luer 2007as Effusiella chlorina

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