Pleurothallis ciliifera Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Hymenodanthae SUBSECTION Longicaulae [Barb. Rodr.] Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Cilia Carrying Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in the Baharona province of Dominican Republic in woods at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, margins minutely denticulate, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall, winter and summer on a fascile arising on a short, peduncle arising from near the middle of the ramicaul, single flowered inflorescence with thin, imbricating, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying greeny white flowers with a purple lip.

"Superficially similar to P mornicola but immediately distinguished by the fascile of pedicels borne by an abbreviated peduncle, instead of a single flower borne by a peduncle thrice longer. The leaves are minutely denticulate whereas those of P mornicola are not. The petals are narrowly linear. The lip is oblong and long ciliatebelow the middle with the rounded apex cellular glandular. The lip of P mornicola is similarily oblong but distinctly denticulate both above and below the middle without long cilia." Luer 1999

Synonyms Specklinia ciliifera (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lindleyana 14: 111 Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia cilifera;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Specklinia cilifera Drawing fide

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