Pleurothallis crenata Lindl. 1846 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

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Drawing

Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Notched Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1200 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, presumably caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising from the apex of the ramicaul, loose, subflexuous, 3" [7.5 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with infundibular, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Closely allied to P lehmanneptis and P immersa but P crenata is distinguished by a short ramicaul, an elliptical subpetiolate leaf, a several flowered raceme about as long as the leaf and long pedicellate flowers with fleshy carinate sepals, spathulate petals and an oblong, verrucose lip with tall rounded sides." Luer 2000

Synonyms Humboldtia crenata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella crenata (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Specklinia crenata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Stelis crenata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Gard. Chron. 1846: 207 Lindley 1846;

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

The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;

The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:262 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis crenata;

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 crenata;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2007 as Pabstiella crenata;

FILOGENIA MOLECULAR E BIOGEOGRAFIA DE Pabstiella BRIEGER & SENGHAS (ORCHIDACEAE NICOLÁS GUTIÉRREZ MORALES 2019 photo fide as Pabstiella crenata photo fide;

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