Pleurothallis minutissima Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Most Minute Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in Colombia as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with very short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spathulate to obovate, emarginate, coriaceous, obtuse to bidentate apically, gradually conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a basal, thread-like, long-pedunculate, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with infundibuliform, mucronate, slightly carinate, membraneous, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
There are several related species that make up the P barbulata complex and thay are P imberbis, P minima, P minutissima and P steinbuchiae
Often cited as a synonym of P barbulata but Kew separates it at this time.
Synonyms Lankesteriana minutissima (Luer) Karremans 2015;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia 20: 218 Luer 1996 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 minutissima;
AOS Bulletin 84: 310 Karremans 2015 as Lankesteriana minutissima
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