Pleurothallis kuhniae Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
Photo by Alex Diaz
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Kuhn's Pleurothallis [American Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Peru without locational and elevational data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, close, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, congested, flexuous, .4 to 1.4" [1 to 3.5 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [ 1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with an acute, as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P breviscapa but distinguished by its slender ramicauls as long as the leaf. The raceme is continually in flower, producing one, to occasionally 2, little pink flowers in slow succession as the rachis gradually increases in length till longer than the leaf. The minute flora lbracts are conspiculous which accents the flexuous character of the tiny rachis. The flowers are simlar to but only af the sized of P berviscapa. The maroon and yellow lip, furnished with similar basal lobules is detitute of lateral lobes." Luer 1976
Synonyms Anathallis kuhniae (Luer) Luer 2009; Panmorphia kuhniae (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia kuhniae (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3: 130 Luer 1976 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 kuhniae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia kuhniae
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia kuhniae drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis kuhniae;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis kuhniae photo fide
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