Pleurothallis auriculata Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Arthrosia Luer 1986 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

LATE THROUGH

Common Name The Eared Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Bolivia at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a minature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, purple ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purple, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the base leaf and blooms in the late spring through summer on a lateral, purple, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several to 12 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe with long lasting, color variable flowers

Synonyms Acianthera auriculata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Arthrosia auriculata (Lindl.) Luer 2006; Humboldtia auriculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia auriculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis anthoxantha Rchb. f. 1866; Pleurothallis compressiflora Barb. Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis triquetra Schltr. 1913; Specklinia auriculata (Lindl.) Luer 2004;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Scweinfurth 1970 as P longicaulis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as P capillaris; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as P longicaulis; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as p sieberi; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as P anthoxanthina; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera auricula; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia auriculata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Arthrosia auriculata

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