Pleurothallis turrialbae Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Sylphia
Photo by © A.P. Karremans
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Turrialba Volcano Pleurothallis [A Volcano in Costa Rica]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations of 1680 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, arising laterally from the ramicaul, erect, .32 to .48" [.8 to 1.2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Similar to P fuegii var echinata but distinguished by the single flowered inflorescsnce, a shorter, densely echinate ovary, longer filiform tails of the sepals and a non-unguiculate lip." Luer 1991
"Distinguished by the narrowly elliptical leaves less than .8" [2 cm] long, borne by ramicauls less than .2" [5 mm] long, The p[eduncle is single flowered, about as longa sthe leaf. The ovary is densely long-papilose, with papillae extending forward onto the sepals. The cncave dorsal sepal is as broad as the leateral sepsl combined and all threeesepals are long-caudate. The petals are obiquely obtuse and single-veined. The lip is elliptical and shallowly shanneled centrally between low, intramarginal calli." Luer 2006
Synonyms Specklinia turrialbae (Luer) Luer 2004; Sylphia turrialbae (Luer) Luer 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 6(2): 105, 106-108, f. Luer, 1991 drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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 turrialbe;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsidertaion of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sylphia turrialbae
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsidertaion of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Sylphia turrialbae drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia turialve photo fide
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