Pleurothallis lasioglossa Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

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

Common Name The Hairy Tongue Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Chimborazo and Morona-Santiago provinces of southern Ecuador at elevations of 2600 to 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, flexuous, distichous, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 12 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and has a tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract.

"Characterized by a long, creeping rhizome that produces a loose hanging, entangled mass of intertwined rhizomes and ramicauls. The ramicuals are short, the leaves are anrrowly obovate, the inflorescencce is a flexuous raceme of successive flowers that ususally does not exceed the leaf. The sepals are narrowly acute, the petals are serrated and long-apiculate andf the lip is minutely ciliate, oblong, with short, obtuse, marginal angles below the middle and a minutely papillose apex." Luer 2006

Synonyms Anathallis implexa (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Anathallis lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2009; Panmorphia lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis implexa Luer 1980; Specklinia lasioglossa (Schltr.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 59 Schlechter 1921;

Selbyana 1: 192 Luer 1975 drawing not = P pachyphyta;

Phytologia 46: 367 Luer 1980 as P implexa;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P implexa;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon and Chase 2001 as Anathallis lasioglossa;

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 lasioglossa;

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

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

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

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