Pleurothallis villosilabia Luer & Hirtz 2002 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Villous Labellum Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early fall on a suberect, arising from near the middle of the ramicaul, flexible, loose, to .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, loose, successively few flowered inflorescence with 1/4 as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Distinguished by the smaller habit, a shorter, few flowered inflorescence, all purple flowers, narrower sepals, long fimbriate petals and an oblong lip with densely villous margins." Luer 2006

Synonyms Andreettaea villosilabia (Luer & Hirtz) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):8 2022 ; Muscarella villosilabia (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Specklinia villosilabia (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 23: 41 Luer & Hirtz 2002 drawing fide;

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 villosilabia;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella villosilabia

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

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella vilolosilabia photo fide;

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):8 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea villosilabia

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