Pleurothallis striata H.Focke 1851 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986

Drawing by Carl Luer

Drawing

Drawing by Cogniaux and Wikimedia Website

Common Name The Striped Pleurothallis

Flower Size

Found in Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam and Ecuador in lowland forests at elevations of sea level to 100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms at moist any time of the year on an erect, arising from the ramicaul, capillary, 1.2 to 1.8" [ 3 to 4.5 cm] long, congested, racemose, successively single flowered inflorescence with imbricating, thin, tubular, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Characterized by narrow leaves surpassed by a slender peduncle that bears a fascile of successive flowers. The sepals are ususally orange amd striped with darker orange or red, the petals are dilated on the labellar margin and the minutely spiculate lip is oblong with low, obtuse marginal angles on the lower third. Confused with P corniculata but differs in the long-pedicellate, one to occasionally 2 flowered inflorescence." Luer 2006

Synonyms Humboltia striata (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Sarcinula striata (H.Focke) Luer 2006; Specklinia striata (H.Focke) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Tijdschr. Wis- Natuurk. Wetensch. Eerste Kl. Kon. Ned. Inst. Wetensch. 4: 63-64. H. Focke 1851;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891as Humboltia striata;

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 striata;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sarcinula striata

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

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia striata photo fide

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