Pleurothallis trichostoma Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842 TYPE for the SECTION

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TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Mouthed Pleurothallis [refers to the pilose margined sepals]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador in shady, wet tropical montane forests at unrecorded elevations as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 short sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute, gradually narrowed below into the indistinct subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a weak, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, suberect to arching, lax, distichous, flexuous, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Related to the variable P flexuosa but vegetatively and florally it is much smaller. It differs mostly in the lip lacking the middle callus above the claw that is present in all forms of P flexosa. In addition the apex of the column is narrowly long-triangular and protruding." Luer 2000

Synonyms Effusiella trichostoma (Luer) Luer 2007; Specklinia trichostoma (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis trichostoma (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 5: 185 1979 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:267 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis trichostoma;

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 2004as Specklinia trichostoma;

Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007as Effusiella trichostoma;

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