Pleurothallis grobyi Bateman ex Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez © .
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
Specimen plant Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer.
Pure white Color form Photos by Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Groby's Pleurothallis [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size less than 1/8" [4 mm]
A miniature, cool to hot growing, caespitose, epiphytic species found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, French Guiana, Surinam and Guyana in cool lower cloud forest, piedmont forests and gallery forests at elevations of 60 to 3200 meters, with a single, apical, sub-orbicular-oval to elliptic, attenuate to a channeled petiolate base, tridenticulate leaf blooming on an apical, racemose, 1" to 6" [2 to 8 cm] long, longer than the leaf, fractiflex inflorescence with a triangular bract and a few flowers opening in succession that can be variable in its flower colors and blooming times. Needs to be mounted on treefern and given warm to cool temperatures with good shade, high humidity and ample air movement.
Synonyms Humboldtia crepidophylla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia crepidophylla (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia marginalis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes marmorata Barb.Rodr. 1881; Lepanthes trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr 1881; Pabstiella ezechiasi (Hoehne) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis arevaloi Schltr. 1924; Pleurothallis barbosae Schltr. 1921; Pleurothallis biglandulosa Schltr. 1922; Pleurothallis choconiana S. Wats. 1888; Pleurothallis crepidophylla Rchb. f. 1878; Pleurothallis ezechiasi Hoehne 1946; Pleurothallis grobyi var. trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis lindleyana Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis marginalis Rchb. f. 1855; Pleurothallis marginata (Rich.)Cogn 1896; Pleurothallis marmorata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis panamensis Schltr. 1921; Pleurothallis pergracilis Rolfe 1893; Pleurothallis surinamensis H.Focke 1849; Pleurothallis trilineata Barb.Rodr. 1877; Specklinia biglandulosa (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia ezechiasi (Hoehne) Luer 2004; Specklinia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) F. Barros 1984; Specklinia marginalis (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 1983 publ. 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667. 1891 as Humboldtia grobyi; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 21. Panama Schlechter 1922 as P panamaense; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:43 Schlechter 1924 as P arevaloi; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 232 Dodson 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1107 Dodson 1984; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis biglandulosa; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as P ezechiasi; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 353 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina biglandulosa; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina grobyi;Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Pabstiella ezechiasi; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Specklinia grobyi
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