Specklinia microphylla (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Specklinia microphylla (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16(4): 258 (2001).

Specklinia microphylla (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Photo by Daniel Hernández 

its native range is Mexico to Ecuador, Jamaica.

Latinh Name: 

Specklinia microphylla (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Humboltia microphylla (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze

Pleurothallis microphylla A.Rich. & Galeotti

Pleurothallis rotundifolia Rolfe

English Name:

The Tiny Leafed Pleurothallis.

Description: 

With a very short ramicaul enveloped below by a single, white, scarious sheath and carrying a single, apical, very small, tridenticulate apically, ovate, gradually rounded below into the short, petiolate base leaf that is held close up against and hugging the tree trunk and blooms in the summer and fall on a short to 1to 2.5 cm, successive 4 to 6 flowering inflorescence arising on new and old leaves.

Distribution:

Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá.

Ecological:

In wet lowland rainforests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring at elevations of 30 to 450 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the  summer and fall.

Flower size:

6.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Light:

Shade; 500-1500 Footcandles (indirect low light,slight shadowing)

Temperature:

Intermediate; 55°F min. to 85°F max.

Watering:

Moist/Daily Watering; 4-7 waterings per week

Type:

Pleurothallis rotundifolia 61196.000 Unknown type material

Jamaica Pleurothallis rotundifolia K000584074 Unknown type material