Pleurothallis barbulata Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Moises Behar Orchidstudium
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Common Name The Small Beard Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Nayarit?, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela at elevations of 150 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spathulate to obovate, emarginate, coriaceous, obtuse to bidentate apically, gradually conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a basal, thread-like, long-pedunculate, 5/8" [1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Anathallis barbulata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Anathallis involuta (L.O. Williams) R. Solano & Soto Arenas 2003; Humboldtia barbulata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia barbulata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Panmorphia barbulata (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Panmorphia involuta (L.O. Williams) Luer 2006; Pleurothallis abjecta Ames 1923; Pleurothallis barbata H. Focke 1853; Pleurothallis ciliilabia Schltr. 1923; Pleurothallis involuta L.O. Williams 1946; Pleurothallis nubensis Foldats 1968; Specklinia barbulata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Specklinia involuta (L.O. Williams) Luer 2004; Specklinia minima (C. Schweinf.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 213 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1083 Dodson 1984 as Pleurothallis abjecta; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Pleurothallis abjecta; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 548 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis barbulata; Icones Orchidacearum 5 & 6 Orchids Of Mexico Parts 2 & 3 Plate 518 Hagsater, Soto 2002 as Anathalis barbulata; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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