Pleurothallis sanchezii Luer & Hirtz 2002 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

Side View of Flower Photo by © Ron Parsons

Common Name or Meaning Sanchez's Pleurothallis [Original Co-collector of species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador in shady, wet tropical forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying an erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successive, single flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the leaf base

Synonyms Panmorphia sanchezii (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2006; Specklinia sanchezii (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 189. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P gonioglossa; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodoson 2003 photo fide other than the pubescence on the sepals and petals; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia sanchezii; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Panmorphia sanchezii drawing hmm seems closer to p herpetophyton because of deep channel on lip and large basaly humps

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