Pleurothallis fractiflexa Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
HOLOTYPE and Drawing by © Oakes Ames & C Schweinfurth
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Fractiflex Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Heridia province of Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to narrowly ovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter on a arising laterally from the ramicaul, loose, flexuous, distichous, successively single, many flowered inflorescence and has an oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Allied to P casualis but differs in the relatively long inflorescence, longer, narrower lateral sepals and petals and disimilar lip. Vegetatively it resembles P quinquesta.
Synonyms Anathallis corynophora (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Anathallis fractiflexa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 2009; Lankesteriana fractiflexa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia fractiflexa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis corynophora Luer 1984; Specklinia fractiflexa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orch. 10: 26-27 Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930;
Phytologia 55: 201. Luer & Vasquez 1984 as P corynophora;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P corynophora;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase2001 as Ananthallis corynophora;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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 fractiflexa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematis of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia fractiflexa
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematis of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia fractiflexa drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis fractiflexa;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Lankesteriana fractiflexa;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana fractiflexa photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana fractiflexa photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 sa Lankesteriana fractiflexa photo fide; fide
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