Pleurothallis blancoi Pupulin 2000 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Tribulodes Luer 1986 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name Blanco's Pleurothallis [American Botanist Current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern Mexico and Costa Rica in rainforests and lower montane forests at elevation of 300 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with very short, terete stems with an annulus enveloped by loose, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, arcuate, narrowly linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, notched, veryu fleshy, basally long attenuate into a canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of single flowers with funnel-shaped, truncate, apiculate, membraneous-papery floral bracts

Synonyms Specklinia blancoi (Pupulin) Soto Arenas & Solano 2002 publ. 2003; Tribulago blancoi (Pupulin) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 plate 669 Hagsater & Soto 2002 as Specklinia blancoi drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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