Pleurothallis segregatifolia Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Daniel Jimenez

Full shade Warm Winter Spring Summer Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Segregate Leafed Pleurothallis

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 1200 to 1550 meters as a mini-miniature szied, warm grwowing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envelopd by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erct, coricaceous, narrowly to broadly elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, lax, disitichous, flexible, flexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with oblique floral bracts.

Synonyms Pleurothallis calyptrosepala L.O.Williams 1942; Specklinia segregatifolia (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Solano & Soto Arenas 2002 publ. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing fide/photo ok; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1125 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia segregatifolia; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia segregatifolia drawing fide

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