Pleurothallis ekmanii Schltr. 1923 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Atopoglossum in ed.

Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name Ekman's Pleurothallis [Swedish Botanist in Dominican Republic 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Holguin province of eastern Cuba on banks of rivulets or foggy mountain crests, in charrascales or gallery forests from 600 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped completely by 2 scarious, infundibuliform, conduplite, acute sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate to spathulate to broadly elliptic, flat to folded, grey green to green above, green beneath, obtuse to acute to subacuminate, tridentate, narrow to shortly attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a pendent to erect, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle filiform, [5 to 15 mm] long, rachis 1 to 2.2" [2.5 to 5.5 cm] long, much longer than the leaves, provoded with 3 remote, small, close, tubular sheaths, successively to simultaneously 2 to few flowered inflorescence with oblique just shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Characterized by the small, tufted plant and an elongated raceme of proportionally large flowers, but the size of the flowers varies greatly. The light green sepals are free, obtuse and connivent and the petals and lip are spotted with purple. The lip is constricted below a saggitate apex and a pair of erect, oblong lateral lobes surround the column. A circular callus is present at the base of the lip that is thickened and solidly connate to the column foot. Eight pollina of equal size are contained free within the anther cap." Luer 2006

Synonyms Atopoglossum ekmanii (Schltr.) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis bovilabia C.Schweinf. 1946

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* I.Urban, Symb. Antill. 9: 61 Schlechter 1923;

AOS Bulletin Vol 15 # 11 1946 as Pleurothallis bovilabia drawing fide;

Catologo Descriptivo de Las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 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 Atopoglossum ekmanii;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Atopoglossum ekmanii

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Atopoglossum ekmanii drawing fide;

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Atopoglossum ekmanii drawing fide

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