Pleurothallis recula Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986 Photo by Epidendra and their Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning The Little Thing Pleurothallis

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Napo Ecuador in forests at elevations around 350 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte withslender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipticl-obovate, subacute, narrowing below intot he petiolatre base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a filiform, .6 to .8" [15 to 20 mm] long, fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has imbricating floral bracts.

Synonyms Specklinia recula (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia recula; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia recula drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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