Pleurothallis macroblepharis Rchb. f. 1874 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986 Photo by Jay Pfahl

Photo courtesy of Walter Teague

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton.

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Common Name The Large-Lashed Pleurothallis [refers to the long filament like sepals]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1600 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubualr sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that that blooms in the summer on a filiform, loose, subflexuous, flexible, to 6" [15 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Masdevallia culex hort. 1888; Masdevallia pulex hort. 1888; Muscarella macroblepharis (Rchb. f.) Luer 2006; Specklinia macroblepharis (Rchb. f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklinia macroblepharis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide other than hairs on the lip apex; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella macroblepharis drawing fide; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Specklinia macroblepharis

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