Pleurothallis trulla Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842

Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Scoop Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the lip with a claw]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Peru without locational data and only a leaf with flowers was preserved so we assume that it is a small sized, presumably epiphytic with a single, erect, fleshy, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, erect, peduncle 3.2" [8 cm] long, arising from the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, loose, secund, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence, with as long as the pedicel floral bract and carrying flowers without color data.

"Only one specimen has been found and it was not complete and only a single leaf and 3 elongated racemes with a few flowers remain. The sepals are carinate, pubescent within and the lateral sepals are completely connate into a concave synsepal. The petals are broad and unguiculate. The blade of the lip is broadly ovate with erect angles above a narrow claw and with a longiitudinal callus on either half. The calli are unusual because they are concave medially creating a pair of crescent shaped flaps. The tip of the lip is decurved." Luer 2000

Synonyms Effusiella trulla (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Luer 2007; Specklinia trulla (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Luer 2004; Stelis trulla (Rchb.f. & Warsz.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 114 Rchb.f. & Warsz. 1854

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia trulla;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:267 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Stelis trulla;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia trulla;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2007 as Effusiella trulla

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