Pleurothallis rostratissima Luer & J.Portilla 2002 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
Photo by Roelke Orchids
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Great Beaked Pleurothallis [refers to the elongate apex of the column]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, densely caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a weak, arising from below the apex of the ramicaul, suberect to arching, lax, distichous, flexuous, to 3.2" [to 8 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with half as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
Very similar to P cypripedioides but differs mostly in the more laterally compressed lip and the more elongate side view to the flower.
Synonyms Effusiella rostratissima (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2007; Specklinia rostratissima (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 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 rostratissima;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Thrid Century of Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2007 as Effusiella rostratissima;
Phytotaxa 203: 293 Karremans 2015 as Stelis rostratissima;
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