Pleurothallis perangusta Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscarae Luer 1986 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Very Tight Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Napo Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 450 to 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect to suberect ramicauls carrying a single, narrowly linear, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 10" [25 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Muscarella perangusta (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia perangusta (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Specklina perangusta; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drwawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Muscarella perangusta drawing fide other than the petals

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