Pleurothallis spiculifera Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Madisonia
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Common Name The Point Carrying Pleurothallis
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil in rain forests in dense carpet-like masses on tree trunks and branches at elevations around 100 to 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, long repent epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with repent, thick, sulcate, purplish green to medium green, narrowly elliptic, acute, tridenticulate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, with several distant acuminate bracts, terete, filiform, green to reddish green, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with a fairly prominent, glabrous, as long as to longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Long repent with very short ramicauls and erect, narrow leaves that are surpassed by a successively few flowered raceme. The sepals are widely expanded and the narrow petals are as long as , or longer than the sepals. The lip is variously three lobed below the middle. The lobes can be indistinct, merely rounded sides or in the synomonous P acutissima the lobes are erect, uncinate and antrorse and all degrees in between." Luer 2006
Synonyms Anathallis spiculifera (Lindl.) Luer 2009; Humboltia acutissima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia spiculifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Madisonia spiculifera (Lindl.) Toscano & E.C.Smidt 2021 Pleurothallis acutissima Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis sertularioides var. trinitensis Griseb. 1864; Pleurothallis trinitensis (Griseb.) Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2000; Specklinia spiculifera (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Fol. Orchid. 9: 43 Lindley 1859;
Fol. Orchid. 9: 43 Lindley 1859 as P acutissima;
Fl. Brit. W. I.: 609 Griseb. 1864 as P sertularioides var trinitensis;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia acutissima;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia spiculifera;
* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:577 Cogniaux 1896;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 as P acutissima drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P acutissima drawing hmm;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986;
Native Orchids of the Eastern Carribean Kenny 1988 as P acutissima photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P trinitensis drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:259 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia spiculifera;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as P trinitensis drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia spiculifera
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia spiculifera drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Anathallis spiculifera;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo ok;
Phytotaxa 505: 81 Toscano & E C Schmidt 2021 as Madisonia spiculifera;
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