Pleurothallis concinna Luer & R.Vásquez 1999 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Elegant Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caspitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a loose, arising through a spathe with an annulus, secund, 6 to 9.6" [15 to 23 cm] long, simultaneously several to many flowered inflorescence with a longer than the ovary floral bract.
"Similar to P sclerophylla in habit as well as the long many flowered inflorescnece farr exceedingthe leaf in length, the petals and sepals are similar as well. The lip however is distinct witha tin, serrated margin above the middle and erect, lateral lobes below the middle and three longitudinal calli." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis concinna (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia concinna (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004; Stelis lauta Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 2: 133 Luer 1999 drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 as P breviscapa drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Anathallis concinan;
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 concinna;
Lankesteriana 13: 329 Karremans 2014 as Stelis lutea; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 as Stelis lauta photo fide;
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