Pleurothallis crenata Lindl. 1846 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista photo by © Jose Cardoso Drummond and Orchidstudium

Common Name The Notched Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Chiapas Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama without collection data as a miniature sized, epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, loose, subflexuous, 3" [7.5 cm] long, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul with infundibular floral bracts.

CAUTION I am not happy with this determination as the colors are way off from Luer's description, purple sepals with yellow petals.

Synonyms Humboldtia crenata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella crenata (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Specklinia crenata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Stelis crenata (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis crenata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia crenata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Pabstiella crenata

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