Pleurothallis prostrata Lindl. 1858 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Apodae-Caespitosae [Lindl.]Luer 1986 Drawing by © Hagen Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Prostrate Pleurothallis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in eastern Cuba in humid and shady places in gallery forests, montane rainforests, charrascales from 600 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with elongate, straight ramicauls enveloped completely by 3, conduplicate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, tridentate, acute to cuneate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms later spring and earlier summer on 1 to 3, terminal, pendent, .8" to 2.8" [2 to 7 cm] long, flexuous, successively 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence ariosing through a conduplicate, acute sheath

Synonyms Antilla prostrata (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboltia prostrata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Antilla prostrata

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