Pleurothallis aryter Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Mentosae Luer 1986 Photo by © Byron Rinke

Common Name The Ladle-Like Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica Colombia and Peru without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with suberect, stout, ramicauls enveloped by 2thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect to pendant, lax, subflexuous, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, successively 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising laterally and has a thin, tubular floral bract.

Synonyms Anthereon aryter (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pabstiella aryter (Luer) F.Barros 2002; Ronaldella aryter (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia aryter (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia aryter; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VolXXVIII Luer 2006 as Ronaldella aryter drawing fide;

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