Pleurothallis grayumii Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscosae Lindl. 1842 Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Website

Flower Photo? lip is wrong all else fits. Photo by © Bogarin and Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name Grayum's Pleurothallis [American discoverer of species and with MOBOT current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with short, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the subpetioalte base leaf that blooms in the winter on a congested, .2" [5mm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising from the ramicaul with imbricating floral bracts.

CAUTION The photo above is only partially correct. It differs from the drawing by Luer in the lip all other characters are correct, please use with caution.

Synonyms Anathallis grayumii (Luer) Luer 2009; Panmorphia grayumii (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia grayumii (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia grayumii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia grayumii drawing fide to drawing photo has lip differences;

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