Pleurothallis displosa Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986
photo by © Wiel Driessen
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Spread Out Pleurothallis [refers to the elongate inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cocle' province of Panama at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a hoizontal to spreading, arising laterally from the ramicaul, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, subcongested to lax, disheveled, successively many flowered inflorescence and with thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to P corniculata but differs on the 4.8" [12 cm] long or more inflorescence with about half of the elongating, disheveled, successively many flowered raceme. The pedicels are .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, less than half the length of the pedicels of P coniculata. Also the petals are narrower and acute." Luer 1999
Synonyms Sarcinula displosa (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia displosa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:256 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia displosa;
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