Pleurothallis ciliata Knowles ex Westc.1837 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo courtesy of David Morris and Clackamas Orchids

Another Flower? Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Full shadeHotWarm Winter

Common Name or Meaning The Ciliate Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, emarginate apically, basally cuneate leaf that blooms in the winter on a nodding, usually solitary, racemose, to 4" [10 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence.

A species often cited for P lanceana yet actually is valid, differs in having narrower leaves, broader synsepal and a dorsal sepal with an apical pad

Synonyms Acianthera lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia ciliata (Knowles & Westc.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia crassifolia (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia plumosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia serrifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia sprucei (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis crassifolia H.Focke 1849; Pleurothallis ciliata var. elongata C.Schweinf. 1953; Pleurothallis daguensis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.1899; Pleurothallis huebneri Schltr. 1925; Pleurothallis lanceana Lodd. ex Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis minax Rchb.f. 1854; Pleurothallis plumosa Lindl. 1842; Pleurothallis serrifera Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis sprucei Lindl. 1859; Specklinia sprucei (Lindl.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as P minax; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing ok; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as P plumosa; Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Icones Pleurothallidiane Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Planetrarum Tropicarum Plate 1481 Mora & Atwood 1992 drawing ok;

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