Pleurothallis intonsa Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009,
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Unshaved Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2550 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 basal sheaths and carrying narrowly elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, loose, flexible, filiform, to 4" [to 10 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with a thin, much shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the loose, long pedicellate raceme of comparatively large flowers with acute sepals and petals. The petals are shortly fimbriate. The lip is thick and ovoid with an erect pair of short, basal lobes with a thickly margined cavity between them. The apex is smooth, rounded and convex with a long-ciliate margin that curves beneath." Luer 2006
Synonyms Andreettaea intonsa (Luer & R.Escobar) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 2022 ; Muscarella intonsa (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2006; Specklinia intonsa (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 14(2): 157. Luer & Escobar 1981 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:258 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia intonsa;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella intonsa
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella intonsa drawing fide;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella intonsa photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea intonsa
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