~Pleurothallis breviscapa C. Schweinf. 1935 - See Pleurothallis funerea (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
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Common Name The Short Inflorescence Pleurothallis
Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia in tropical wet forests at elevations of 300 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, oval, rounded leaf that gradually tapers into the petiole and blooms occasionally throughout the year on a fascile of several, successive single flowers held at mid-leaf and having a tubular bract below the middle and tubular acuminate floral bracts.
CAUTION Said to be synomonous with P funerea but I have keft them separtate for now.
Synonyms Anathallis breviscapa (C. Schweinf.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Specklinia breviscapa (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0277 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P rabei drawing good; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Anathallis breviscapa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia breviscapa;
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