Pleurothallis coeloglossa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

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

Common Name The Hollow Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador and Junin department of Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, arising laterally from the ramicaul, loose, 1.6" [4 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bract.

"Related to P exesilabia but distinguished by the large, rounded, basal lobes of the lip and the glabrous, apical lobe. In both species an opening on the disc leads to a deep cavity with a smaller cavity at the base." Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea coeloglossa (Luer & Hirtz) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 2022 ; Muscarella coeloglossa (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Specklinia coeloglossa (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lindleyana 11: 154 Luer & Hirtz 1996;

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 coeloglossa;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella coeloglossa

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevalia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella coeloglossa drawing fide;

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):3 2022 as Andreettaea coleoglossa

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