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Pleurothallis spiloporphyrea Dod 1978 SUBGENUS Tridelta

TYPE Drawing by © Donald Dod

Drawing of Tridelta aurantiaca by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Purple Spotted Pleurothallis [refers to the flower]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in the Constanza province of Dominican Republic in cloud forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, denticulate-erose margins, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a .04 to .2" [1 to 5 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has an oblique, acute, longer than the ovary floral bract.

"As in many others from DR the margins of the leaves of this are minutely denticulate. The short stemmed flower is borne singly, the dorsal sepal is deeply connate to a concave synsepal, the petals are narrowly oblong and the lip is bilamellate above the middle, the lamina fitting between broaad, descending wings of the column from above." Luer 2006

Synonyms Acianthera neibana (Dod) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Cryptophoranthus aurantiacus Dod 1976; Pleurothallis neibana Dod 1984; Specklinia spiloporphyrea (Dod) Luer 2004; Tridelta aurantiaca (Dod) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Moscosoa 1: 3:57 Dod 1978 drawing fide;

Moscosoa Vol 1, #1:50 1976 as Cryptophoranthus aurantiacus drawing fide;

Moscosoa 3: 101 Dod 1984 as P neibanus;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P neibanus

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as P neibana;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

Lindleyana 16: 245 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Acianthera neibana;

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 2004 as Specklinia spiloporphyrea;

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

Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide

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