Pleurothallis spiculifera Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986 Photo by © Pako and the Orchidées de Guyane Website

Drawing Drawing by © Cogniaux

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Common Name The Point Carrying Pleurothallis

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil in rain forests in dense carpewt-like masses on tree trunks and branchees at elevations around 100 to 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with repent, thick, sulcate, purplish green to medium green, narrowly elliptic, acute, tridenticulate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, terete, filiform, green to reddish green, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with several distant acuminate bracts and a fairly prominent floral bract

CAUTION The picture quality does not give me a chance to be positive of theis determination sp please use with caution.

Synonyms Humboltia acutissima (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia spiculifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis sertularioides var. trinitensis Griseb. 1864; Pleurothallis trinitensis (Griseb.) Carnevali & G.A.Romero 2000; Specklinia spiculifera (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing in part ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok in part; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P trinitensis drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as P trinitensis drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Specklinia spiculifera drawing ok;

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