Pleurothallis barberiana Rchb. f. 1881 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by © Sebastain Viera Uribe
What has been known as P gongylodes
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photos by © The Ecuagenera Website
TYPE Drawing of P gongylodes © Carl Luer
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Common Name Barber's Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in scrub forests found at elevations of 1650 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, gradually narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, loose, slender, 3.2 to 3.6" [8 to 9 cm] long peduncle, to 4 to 9.2" [10 to 23 cm] long overall, flexuous, flexible, gradually lengthening, successively single flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and holding the flower well above the leaves.
CAUTION!!! Kew still has this one as a synonym of P aristata but Karremans and S Viera U in 2020 separated it and its synonyms [P gongylodes and P tsubotae]. The mini-miniature sized plant is easily distinguished from P aristata by the white-light ocher flower with fine dark purple blotches, Cypridia" like lip and the serrate petals.
Synonyms Andreettaea gongylodes (Luer) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):8 2022; Humboldtia barberiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia barberiana (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Muscarella barberiana (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2012; Muscarella gongylodes (Luer) Luer 2006; Muscarella tsubotae (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis gongylodes Luer 1979; Specklinia gongylodes (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Verapazia barbaeriana (Rchb.f.) Chiron & Szlach. 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gard. Chron., n.s., 16: 6 Rchb.f 1881;
Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 3: 279 Rchb.f 1885 as P urbaniana;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia barberiana;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as P barberiana drawing not;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P barberana sic drawing not;
Selbyana 5: 166 Luer 1979 as P gongylodes;
Orquideología 20: 88. Luer & R. Escobar 1996 as P tsubotae drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P gongylodes;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:257 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklina gongylodes;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Pleurothallis gongylodes photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia tsubotae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella gongylodes
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella gongylodes drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella tsubotae
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella tsubotae drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 as Pleurothallis tsubotae photo fide;
Orchids French Guiana: 195 Szlach & Sawicka 2012 as Muscarella barberiana;
Richardiana, N.S. 2: 167 Chiron & Szlach. 2018 as Verapazia barberiana;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020as Muscarella barberiana photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):8 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea tsubotae
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