Pleurothallis janetiae Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Elongatia SECTION Petiolatae Luer 1986
Photo by Vosse Rare Plants Website
Photo by Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Janet's Pleurothallis [Mrs Kuhn American Original Collector of species 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect to lateral, arising from above the base, 2.4" [6 cm] long, succesively single flowered inflorescence with thin, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Pleurothallis janetiae is distinguished by a petiolate leaf borne by a short ramicaul with a lateral inflorescence. The inflorescence droops and produces a loose raceme of several, successive, comparatively large, long-pedicellate flowers. The petals and lip are fringed. It is very closely allied to Panamanian P. guttata, but differs in the larger habit, and considerably larger flowers with broader floral parts. Except for the size, the base of the cymbiform lip and footless column are similar in both species. Pleurothallis janetiae is superficially similar to sympatric P. carpinterae, but P. janetiae Is distinguished by the proportionately shorter ramicaul and a long-peliolate leaf. The bilabiate flowers of the two species are similar in size and color, but the petals and lip of P. janetiae are elliptical and serrulate to fimbriate." Luer 1994
Synonyms Elongatia janetiae (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis janetiae (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 169-170. Luer 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4: Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Stelis janetiae;
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 Elongatia janetiae;
Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;
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