SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986

This series is separated by the short racemose inflorescence with spreading petals that are narrow and glabrous and are often thickened mostly towards the apex.

1. Pleurothallis bicallosa Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador

2. Pleurothallis cernua Luer 1975 Colombia and Ecuador

3. Pleurothallis chloroleuca Lindl. 1846 Colombia, Venezuela and northern Ecuador

4. Pleurothallis circinata Luer 1996 Colombia

5. Pleurothallis cleistogama Luer 1998 Panama

6. Pleurothallis cunabularis Luer 1998 Colombia

7. Pleurothallis flaveola Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador

8. Pleurothallis helleri A.D.Hawkes 1966 Nicaragua, Cosata Rica, Colombia and Ecuador

9. Pleurothallis medusa Luer 1997 Costa Rica

10. Pleurothallis notabilis Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia

11. !Pleurothallis ruscifolia (Jacq.) R. Br. 1813 Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Puerto Rico, Leewards, Jamaica?, Dominican Republic and Cuba

12. Pleurothallis valvola Luer & Hirtz 1988 Ecuador