Pleurothallis unduavica Luer & R.Vásquez 1980 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Unduavi Pleurothallis [refers to a river and town near where the species was collected]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 2450 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, grey green, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, rounded and narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, subcongested, distichous, 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with an as long as the pedicelthe pedicel floral bract .
" Similar to P rubens and even more so to P coripatae. All three have similar lips. Differs from P rubens in the column that lacks the protruding margin beyond the anther. Differs from P coripatae in the denticulate lamellae within the margins of the lip. From both it differs in the serrulate margins of the petals." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis unduavica (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia unduavica (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004; Stelis unduavica (Luer & R.Vásquez) Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 372 Luer 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide;
Lindleyana 16: 4:251 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis unduavica;
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 unduavica;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Specklinia unduavica;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis unduvica;
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 as Stelis unduavica photo fide;
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