Pleurothallis spathuliformis Luer & R.Vásquez 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Spatula-Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the petals and lip]
Flower Size .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm]
Found Cochabamba department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphtye with erect, blackish, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths below the middle and at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, arising through a narrow spathe with an annulus at the apex of the ramicaul,subcongested, secund, 2 to 4.4" [5 to 11 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P acuminata but differs in the smaller habit with shorter racemes. The very similar flowers are distinguished by the spathulate petals that are apically rounded and the spathulate lip witha low, midline callus between the lateral pair, The spex is free of any verrucosities." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis spathuliformis (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia spathuliformis (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004; Stelis spathuliformis (Luer & R.Vásquez) Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 137, f. 3. Luer & R. Vásquez, 1999 TYPE Drawing;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999drawing fide nom. illeg. hom.;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:251 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathalllis spathuliformis;
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 spathuliforma;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis spathulifoprmis
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