Synonyms ²

Pleurothallis picta

Location ²

Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Mexico; Panama; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Habitat ²

Wide range of habitats from 100 to 2,100 m asl. It is mostly found in wet premontane, montane forests, cloud forests and gallery forests.

Description ²

This species is a caespitose, miniature epiphytic orchid, which grows as an epiphyte with short, minute, ramicauls encased by 3 shortly imbricate, open subtubular papery sheaths with a single, apical, narrowly oblanceolate, long attenuate, channeled to the petiolate base, apex tridenticulate, coriaceous, dark green leaf where it blooms on a lateral, 4" [10 cm] long, from the apex of the ramicaul [well developed erect one leafed stems], filiform [thin], slightly fractiflex [zigzagged], racemose, several [8 to 11] flowered inflorescence with minute, ovate-triangular, pale brown floral bracts that is much longer than the leaves occuring in the spring through late summer.

References ²

http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleupicta.htm
Romand-Monnier, F. 2013. Specklinia picta. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Más información

• NaturaLista página del taxón
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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