Pleurothallis petiolaris Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Petiolate Pleurothallis [refers to the stem of the leaf]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia in moist forests at elevations of 200 to 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3, long, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the long-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising through a spathe, from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, subsecund, to 24" [60 cm] long, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to P imraei but distinguished by the small habit with elliptical leaves borne by a long slender, distinct petiole. The few flowered raceme reaches just beyond the petiolae. The sepals are connate from below the middle to about the middleinto a tube with a small but acute and deep mentum below the column foot.The sepals are carinate externally and finely pubescent within, the petals are broadly spathulate and the arcuate lip is verrucose at the apex with the calli within the dilated margins of the middle third." Luer 2000
Synonyms Effusiella petiolaris (Luer) Luer 2007; Specklinia petiolaris (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis lehmannii Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002; Stelis petiolaris (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 20: 220. Luer 1996 drawing fide;
Lindleyana 16: 265. Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Specklinia petiolaris;
Lindleyana 17: 99 Pridgeon & Chase 2002 as Specklinia lehmannii;
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 petiolaris;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Third Century of Selis of Ecuador Systematics of APoda-prorepentia 2007 as Effusiella petiolaris
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