Pleurothallis duplooyi Luer & Sayers 2001 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage

Common Name Duplooy's Pleurothallis [One of Original Collector's of Species current]

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Belize at elevations around 760 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying asingle apical, suberect to prostrate, lens-shaped, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, subcongested, successively few flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul

Synonyms Panmorphia duplooyi (Luer & Sayers) Luer 2006; Specklinia duplooyi (Luer & Sayers) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correl 1952; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia duplooyi; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia duplooyi drawing ok

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