Pleurothallis medinae Luer & J.J. Portilla 2000 SUBGENUS Restrepioidia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
TYPE Drawing by Luer
Common Name Medina's Pleurothallis [Ecuadorian co-collector of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 to 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 shorter ones at the base and carryring a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising and mostly enveloped by a reclining spathe .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long, successsively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P nuda with a single, flower borne from a reclining spathe at the base of a leathery, elliptical leaf. Although smaller, the sepals and petals are similar but the lip is more similar to racemose species of the subgenus with long, antrorse, basal lobes." Luer 2000
Synonyms Lindleyalis medinae (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2004; Specklinia medinae (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo 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 Lindleyalis medinae;
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 medinae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Specklnia medinae;
Orchids of Tropical America Meisel 2014 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia medinae photo not =?
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