Pleurothallis glandulosa Ames 1923 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name The Glanded Pleurothallis

Flower Size to 1/2" [1.2 cm]

Found as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana and Venezuela in disturbed evergreen forests and on riverbanks and has very short ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, obovate, elliptic oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse or retuse apically, gradually narrow below into the conduplicate base leaf that is purple underneath and blooms on a threadlike, warty, to 2" [5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered, filiform, fractiflex inflorescence that holds the flower even with the length of the leaves and occurs in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Pleurothallis vittariifolia Schltr. 1923; Pleurothallis vittariifolia Schltr. 1923; Sarcinula glandulosa (Ames) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 26. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P vittariifolia; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 198. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P vittariifolia; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as P vittariifolia drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P vittariifolia drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1106 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis vittariifolia; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 as P vittariifolia photo ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P vittariifolia drawing ok; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina glandulosa; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklinia vittariifolia; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as P vittariifolia drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Sarcinula glandulosa drawing ok ok

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