Pleurothallis reptilis Luer & Dalström 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Creeping Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, long repent epiphyte with a stout, suberect ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical to subcircular, obtuse to rounded, rounded and contracted below into the subsessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising from below the apex of the ramicaul, .04" [ 1 mm] long peduncle, single, sometimes successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence with an infundibular, half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
" Similar to P angulosa and P polygonoides but distinguished by the broadly elliptical, subsessile leaves and a .04" [1 mm] long peduncle emerging from below the apex of the ramicaul, and bears a single flower, sometimes followed by a second. The sepals are not remarkably different but the acute petals are subfalcate and the bicarinate lip is three lobed with the lobes erose, erect, and antrorse." Luer 2006
Synonyms Anathallis reptilis (Luer & Dalström) Luer 2009; Panmorphia reptilis (Luer & Dalström) Luer 2006; Specklinia reptilis (Luer & Dalström) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 183 Luer & Dalstrom 1996 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 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 reptilis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia reptilis drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis reptilis;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis reptilis photo fide
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