Pleurothallis ricii Luer & R.Vásquez 1997 publ. 1998 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Ric's Pleurothallis [Darwin Ric Bolivian Co-collector of species current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in seasonally dry forests at elevations around 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths with red veinlike ribs and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a subdense, filiform, .6" [1.5 cm] long including the .2 to .4" [5 to 10 mm] long peduncle, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a thin floral bract.

Characterized by the narrowly elliptic leaf carried by an equally long ramicaul with red veined ribbed sheaths. The inflorescence is short and carries 3 to 4 successively opening flowers with small sepals and petals which are wide spread to expose the comparitively large oblong, ciliate lip with a pair of longitudinal calli. The petals are ciliate and cellular glandular at the apex.

Synonyms Anathallis ricii (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2009; Panmorphia ricii (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006; Specklinia ricii (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botanica 1[2]: 9-19 Luer 1997 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XV Luer 1997;

Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 photo/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 ricii;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia ricii

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Panmorphia ricii drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis ricii;

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