SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Tribulodes Luer 1986

Charcterized by the congested, racemose inflorescence of fleshy, brick red flowers with the apices of the sepals connivent [touching]. The spiny capsule resembles a cocklebur.

TYPE for the SECTION

!Pleurothallis tribuloides (Sw.) Lindl. 1830

1. Pleurothallis blancoi Pupulin 2000 Mexico and Costa Rica

2. !Pleurothallis tribuloides (Sw.) Lindl. 1830 Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica and Surinam

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