Pleurothallis aristata Hook. 1939 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Plant and Flower Photos by © Daniel Jimenez G. and his Flickr Costa Rica Orchid Photo Website
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Common Name The Spiked Pleurothallis
Flower Size about 1" [2.4 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in rain to cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short, terete ramicaul carrying a single apical, narrowly oblanceolate, apically tridentate leaf with a channeled petiole and 3 imbricate basal sheaths that blooms with a single, capillary, fractiflex, to 4" [10 cm] long, distichously laxly several flowered, racemose inflorescence that is much longer than the leaf with several, basal, imbricate, papery bracts and minute floral bracts occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Humboldtia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia barberiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia barberiana (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis barberiana Rchb. f. 1881; Pleurothallis dichotoma Ames 1923; Pleurothallis divexa Ames 1924; Pleurothallis urbaniana Rchb. f. 1885; Specklinia aristata (Hook.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia dichotoma Poepp. & Endl. 1836;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as P urbaniana; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as P barberiana drawing not; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as P barberiana; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing not; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P barberana sic drawing not; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis helenae; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 349 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina aristata; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella aristata drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
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