Pleurothallis imberbis Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
TYPE Drawing © by Luer
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Common Name The Beardless Pleurothallis [refers to the glabrous lip]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Venezuela, Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations around 200 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with suberect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, rounded, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a suberect, arising laterally from the ramicaul, successively single flowered inflorescence with imbricating, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Most similar to P barbulata but P imberbis is distinguished by the broader, obtuse, glabrous petals and the glabrous lip." Luer 1996
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Synonyms Anathallis imberis [Luer & Hirtz] Luer 2009; Lankesteriana imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis aondae Carnevali & Romero 2000; Specklinia imberbis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 163 Luer & Hitrz 1996
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P aondae drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 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 imberis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia imberbis
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia imberbis drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis imberbis;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Lankesteriana imberbis;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana imberbis drawing fide;
Harvard Papers in Botany , Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 39–68 2015,© NEW SPECIES AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES IN THEPLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Luer & Toscano 2015 as Lankesteriana imberbis drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Lankestriana imberbis photo fide
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