Pleurothallis divexa Ames 1924 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986

Photo by © Daniel Jimenez G. and his Flickr Costa Rica Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Diverging Pleurothallis [refers to the bifurcating inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Colombia at elevations around 365 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, obloancolate, marginate, bidenticulate apically, with an apicule between the teeth, contracted below into the slender petiolate bsae leaf that blooms on an ascending erect, peduncle 1.6" [3.5 cm] long, rachis 1" [2.5 cm] slender, thread-like, dichotomous, loose, to 5 flowered inflorescence.

"Allied to P alata, but with the sepals long-caudate and the labellum quite different." Ames 1924 as P dichotoma

Kew still has this one as a synonym of P aristata but the mini-miniature sized plant found at low elevations is easily distinguished by the short thick sepal tails, the bent dorsal sepal and a thick clavate, bulbous apically lip and the bifurcating inflorescence

Synonyms Andreettaea divexa (Ames) A.Doucette 2022; Muscarella divexa [Ames] Karremans & S Viera U 2020; Pleurothallis dichotoma Ames 1923;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 52 Poepp & endl. 1836 as Specklinia dichotoma;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 9: 140 Schlechter 1921 as P dichotoma;

Schedul. Orch. 6: 58-59 Ames 1923 as Pleurothallis dichotoma;

* Schedul. Orchid. 7: 20 Ames 1924;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952 drawing fide;

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1:178 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella divexa photo fide;

Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):4 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea divexa

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