Pleurothallis cestrochila Garay 1973 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by Sebastian Viera Uribe
Photo by Dr Leslie Garay
HOLOTYPE Collection Sheetby Dr Leslie Garay
Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Hammer-Like Lip Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, eret, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below intot he petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on an erect, arising laterally from the ramicaul, flexible, flexuous, loose, filiform, to 2.4” [6 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2” [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
"This new species is related to P. macroblepharis Rchb. f. and P. Pleurothallis alata , but differs from both in the size of the flowers and especially in the details of the lip." Garay 1973
This species can be color variable into clear yellow-brown colors
Synonyms Andreettaea cestrochila (Garay) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 2022; Muscarella cestrochila (Garay) Luer 2006; Specklinia cestrochila (Garay) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 8: 180. Garay 1973 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:257 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklina cestrochilus;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella cestrochila;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella cestrochila drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020as Muscarella cestrochila photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):2 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea cestrochila
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