Pleurothallis oblonga Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Oblong Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 2700 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowly cuneate intot he petiolate base leaf that blooms late spring and early summer on an erect, loose, filiform, to 4" [10 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.
CAUTIOn Use caution with this determination. Lip is wrong, more similar to P setigera version of P zephyrina but I am not sure anyone?
Synonyms Muscarella oblonga (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Specklinia oblonga (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo maybe - mine has revolute basal margins on lip; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia oblonga; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella oblonga drawing ok
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