Pleurothallis coronula Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Little Crowned Pleurothallis [refers to the fringed cavity at the base of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nariño department of Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a lateral, slender, 1" to 2" [ 2.5 to 5 cm] long, congested, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, imbricating, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the slender peduncle twice or more as long as the leaf, the shortly acuminate sepals are minutely carinate-denticulate, the petals are obliquely obtuse with minutely erose margins. A longitudinal pair of carinae join above the base to form a fringed crown-like cavity and a large pedunculated callus is prsent on either side of the column foot." Luer 1999
Synonyms Pleurothallis coronula Luer 2000; Sarcinula coronula (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia coronula (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 drawing fide;
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 coronula;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of SpeckliniaLuer 2006 as Sarcinula coronula drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia coronula photo fide
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