Pleurothallis resupinata Ames 1908 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Drawing by Luer
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Common Name The Resupinate Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
This plant was collected from Michoacan Mx., at 2164m elev, near Uruapan in small grove of trees
Endemic to Michoacan statae of Mexico in moist pine-oak forests and evergreen cloud forests from 1500 to 2700 meters in elevation as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose growing epiphyte and rarely lithophyte with filiform, flexuous ramicauls enveloped basally by 1 or 2, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse, petiolate, spotted with reddish brown leaf that blooms in the spring through the winter on an apical, erect, 1 1/2 to 3" [4 to 8 cm] long, fractiflex, elongating, with a few successively single to 2, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, longer to shorter than the pedicel flora lbracts and holding the flowers above or at the tip leaves.
"Closely allied to P longispicata but characterized by the proportionally long, lax, secund raceme that eventually far surpasses the leaf. THe sepals are fleshy, carinate, with dark purple blotches and glabrous, the petals are obovate amnd the lip is narrowly oblong with the carinae inside along the margins near the middle." Luer 2000
Synonyms Effusiella resupinata Luer 2007; Pleurothallis oestlundiana L.O.Williams 1946; Pleurothallis sanguinolenta Garay & Kittr. 1985; Specklinia resupinata (Ames) Luer 2004; Stelis resupinata (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2:272 Ames 1908 drawing fide;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 Orchidaceae Mc Vaugh 1985 as Pleurothallis sanguinolenta;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 91 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:266 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis resupinata;
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 resupinata;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2007 as Effusiella resupinata
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