SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

Characterized by the small caespitose plants with a loose, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying flowers with membraneous, free sepals or the laterals may be connate to near the middle. The petals are variously lacerate, raely entire and the apex is commonly long-attenuate. The thick, fleshy, often verrucose lip has more or less erect, lateral margins below the middle and are often continuous with calli from the disc and the base may be membraneously bilobulate.

  1. Pleurothallis alata A.Rich. & Gal. 1845 Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica

  2. Pleurothallis aristata Hook. 1939 Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  3. Pleurothallis cestrochila Garay 1973 Colombia and Ecuador

  4. Pleurothallis claviculata Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador

  5. Pleurothallis cynocephala Luer 1979

  6. Pleurothallis exesilabia A.H. Heller & A.D. Hawkes 1966 Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ecuador

  7. Pleurothallis furcatipetala Luer & Hirtz 2001 Ecuador

  8. Pleurothallis gongylodes Luer 1979 Ecuador

  9. Pleurothallis helenae Fawc. & Rendle 1909 Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Jamaica

  10. Pleurothallis herpestes Luer 1979 Costa Rica

  11. Pleurothallis intonsa Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia

  12. Pleurothallis kennedyi Luer 1977

  13. Pleurothallis latilabris Foldats 1968 Colombia and Venezuela

  14. Pleurothallis llamachoi Luer 1998 Cuba

  15. Pleurothallis longilabris Lindl. 1858 Cuba

  16. Pleurothallis macroblepharis Rchb. f. 1874 Colombia and Ecuador

  17. Pleurothallis megalops Luer 1982 Ecuador

  18. Pleurothallis oblonga Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador

  19. Pleurothallis perangusta Luer 1976 Ecuador

  20. Pleurothallis polygonoides Griseb. 1864 Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia

  21. Pleurothallis quinqueseta Ames 1925 Costa Rica and Panama

  22. Pleurothallis rabei Foldats 1968 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

  23. Pleurothallis samacensis Ames 1923 Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil

  24. Pleurothallis sanchezii Luer & Hirtz 2002 Ecuador

  25. Pleurothallis schudelii Luer & Hirtz 2002 Ecuador

  26. Pleurothallis semperflorens Lindl. 1859 Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern Brazil

  27. Pleurothallis seriata Lindl. 1840 Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil

  28. Pleurothallis setosa C. Schweinf. 1941 Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica

  29. Pleurothallis strumosa Ames 1925 Guatemala, Costa Rica

  30. Pleurothallis tentaculifera Luer & Hirtz ? Ecuador

  31. Pleurothallis trullifera Luer & Hirtz 1996 Ecuador

  32. Pleurothallis xanthella Luer 1975 Ecuador

  33. Pleurothallis zephyrina Rchb.f. 1855

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