Pleurothallis citrina Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by Dalton Holland Batista
Drawing by Helena Ignowski and Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019
Common Name The Yellow Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cold wet forests at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a loose, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, subsecund, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered, racemose inflorescence .
Luer feels this one is distinct from P obovata with which it is often allied but they differ in P citrina having 1 to 3 erect, distantly flowered racemose inflorescence that often reach beyond the middle of the leaf, P obovata on the other hand have disheveled, shorter than the leaf, more congested, few flowered racmose inflorescence
Synonyms Anathallis citrina (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Pleurothallis angustilabia Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Pleurothallis brachyantha Schltr. 1924; Pleurothallis citrina var. elliptica C. Schweinf. 1953; Pleurothallis guentheri Schltr. 1929; Pleurothallis stenoglossa Pabst 1956; Specklinia citrina (Schltr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 P citrina;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 27: 44 Schlechter 1924 as P brachyantha
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 207 Hoehne & Schlechter 1926 nom illegal as P angustilabia;;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 27: 51 Schlechter 1929 as P guentheri;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 14: 19 Pabst 1956 as P stenoglossa;
Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P renipetala drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 P stenoglossa drawing hmm;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as P angustilabia drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P angustilabia drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis angustilabia;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis citrina;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as Pleurothallos guentheri;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 279 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as P guentheri drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P angustilabia drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Ibisch & Vasquez 2000 photo hmm/drawing good;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 743 Bennett & Christenson 2001 Drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Anathallis angustilabia;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Anathallis citrina;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Anathallis guentheri;
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 citrina;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castello Vol 2 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Anathallis obovata drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
Rodriguésia 70: e02722017 Anathallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) no estado do Paraná, Brasil Santos, Toscano and Smidt 2019 as Anathallis citrina drawing/photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis citrina photo fide
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