Pleurothallis lipothrix Luer 1984 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

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

Common Name The Hairless Pleurothallis [refers to the glabrous lip]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, filiform, subflexuous, to 4.8" [to 12 cm] long including the 1.2" to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, loose, successively 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 long-acuminate sepals and petals. The blades of the petals are ciliate. The lip is thick, glabrous and oblong, convex above the middle and channeled below the middle between low, basal lobes." Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea lipothrix (Luer) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 2022 ; Muscarella lipothrix (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia lipothrix (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 55: 201. Luer & Vasquez 1984;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurorthallis Luer 1986;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:258 Pridgeon and Chase 2001 as Specklinia lipothrix;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella lipothrix

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

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):5 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea lipothrix

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