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

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

EARLY

Common Name The Secret Pleurothallis [possibly refers to the rounded tubercle at the tip of the lip in Fendler's sketch that Lindley was unable to identify]

Flower Size .32" [3 mm]

Found in Venezuela and Azuay province of Ecuador at elevations around 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, repent, branching epiphyte with an stout ramicaul enveloped by a thin tubular sheath and carrying a single, suberect to prostrate, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 2 to 3, arising from a node at the apex of the ramicaul. suberect, distichous, to .2 to .32" [5 to 8 mm] long including the .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long peduncle, sublax, successively single, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.

"Distinguished by the creeping rhizome with suberect to prostrate, elliptical leave and a short, successively few flowered raceme, The dorsal sepal and synsepal are subacute. The petals are attenuated, those from Ecuador being smooth while the Venezuelan specimens are microscopically suberose. The sides of the obovate lip are covered by long, pedunculate appendages and the apex is rounded with an obscure callus." Luer 2006

Synonyms Anathallis clandestina (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboltia clandestina (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Panmorphia clandestina (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis zorrocuchensis Luer 1979; Specklinia clandestina (Lindl.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Fol. Orchid. 9: 43 Lindley 1859;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia

Selbyana 5: 188 Luer 1979 as P zorrocuchensis;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Anathallis clandestina;

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 clandestina;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia clandestina

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia clandestina drawing fide

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