Pleurothallis areldii Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Full shade Warm Cool Summer

Common Name Areld's Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Panama and Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 750 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with short ramicauls carrying a single apical, lanceolate leaf and blooms in the summer on a pendulous, successively single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Sarcinula areldii (Luer) Luer2006; Specklinia areldii (Luer) Pridgeon & Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum III. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina areldii; Orquideas De La Serrania Del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sarcinula areldii drawing fide

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