Pleurothallis syringodes Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Mirabilia Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name The Pipe Like Pleurothallis [refers to the cylindrical sepaline spur]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Nariño department of Colombia without locality as a medium sized, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect, weak, more or less prolific ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, closely adpressed, microscopically ciliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, arising from the apex of the ramicaul, capillary, with a bract near the middle, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Similar to P mirabilis but differs in the much smaller size, a single flowered peduncle, a proportionally longer spur and a narrowly cuneate lip." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anthereon syringodes (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Gyalanthos syringodes (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001; Pabstiella syringodes (Luer) F.Barros 2002; Specklinia syringodes (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 16: 252 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anthereon syringoides;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 117 Szlach & Marg 2001 as Gyalanthos syringoides;
Bradea 8: 296 F Barros 2002 as Anathallis syringodes;
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 syringoides;
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