Pleurothallis mucronata Lindl. ex Cogn. 1909 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986 Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

Common Name The Mucronate Pleurothallis [ends abruptly in a point]

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in eastern Cuba in humid and shady to partially open conditions, usually along rivulets in gallery forests or rarely in montane rainforests from 500 to 800 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with densely clustered, very short ramicauls enveloped by 3, membraneous, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, yeloowish green, glabrous above, green and glabrous beneath, elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse to shortly apiculate, shortly attenuate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, filiform, red, glabrous, to 2" [5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus and an ovate sheath and has various bracts.

Synonyms Specklinia mucronata (Lindl. ex Cogn.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia mucronata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia mucronata drawing fide;

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