Pleurothallis brighamii S. Watson 1888 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez ©

Flowers? most likely P brighamella

Plant and Inflorescence? Photo courtesy of Prem Subrahmanyam

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Common Name Brigham's Pleurothallis

Flower Size to about 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador as a miniature, caespitose, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species found in lower rain forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters with stems carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, bright lustrous green, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms successively on a apical, short to 3" [7.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence that is close to the length of the leaf, mostly in the summer.

Synonyms Sarcinula brighamii (S. Watson) Luer 2006; Specklinia brighamii (S.Watson) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 23(2): 285-286. 1888; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1085 Dodson 1984 drawing fide to the first photo ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis acrisepala; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis periodica; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina brighamii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sarcinula brighamii drawing fide

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