Pleurothallis inversa Luer & R.Vásquez 2001 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Inverted Pleurothallis [refers to the non resupinate flower]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly obovate, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, congested, filiform, 6 to 9.2" [15 to 23 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has imbricating, somewhat shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Characterized by the minute habit with broadly obovate leaves that are surpassed by a filimentous peduncle bearing a congested raceme of successive pedicels. The flower is held non-resupinate with the middle sepal and synsepal convex in opposite directions. The petals clasp the column while the lip protrudes above." Luer 2006

Synonyms Anathallis inversa (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2009; Lankesteriana inversa (Luer & R.Vásquez) Karremans 2014; Panmorphia inversa (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006; Specklinia inversa (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 3: 50 Luer & R.Vásquez 2001 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 inversa;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia inversa

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

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis inversa;

LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Lankesteriana inversa;

AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #5 2015 as Lankestriana inversa;

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