Specklinia grobyi

"Specklinia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) F.Barros is a species of orchid broadly distributed from southern Mexico through most of northern South America. It was formerly placed in the genera Humboltia, Lepanthes, Pabstiella, and Pleurothallis." 

Specklinia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) F.Barros, Hoehnea 10: 110 (1983).

Specklinia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) F.Barros, Photo by Jack Sadovnik

its native range is S. Mexico to S. Tropical America.

Latin Name: 

Specklinia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) F.Barros

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Humboltia crepidophylla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Humboltia grobyi (Bateman ex Lindl.) Kuntze

Humboltia trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Kuntze

Lepanthes marmorata Barb.Rodr.

Lepanthes trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr.

Pabstiella ezechiasi (Hoehne) Luer

Pleurothallis barbosae Schltr.

Pleurothallis choconiana S.Watson

Pleurothallis crepidophylla Rchb.f.

Pleurothallis ezechiasi Hoehne

Pleurothallis grobyi Bateman ex Lindl.

Pleurothallis grobyi var. marmorata (Barb.Rodr.) Garay

Pleurothallis grobyi var. trilineata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.

Pleurothallis marmorata (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.

Pleurothallis marmorata var. concolor Cogn.

Pleurothallis pergracilis Rolfe

Pleurothallis perplexa Rchb.f.

Pleurothallis trilineata Barb.Rodr.

Specklinia barbosae (Schltr.) Luer & Toscano

Specklinia ezechiasi (Hoehne) Luer

English Name:

Groby's Pleurothallis (English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's).

Description: 

With a single, apical, sub-orbicular-oval to elliptic, attenuate to a channeled petiolate base, tridenticulate leaf blooming on an apical, racemose, 2 to 8 cm long, longer than the leaf, fractiflex inflorescence with a triangular bract and carrying few successively opening flowers that can be variable in color and blooming times.

Distribution:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Ecological:

A miniature, cold to hot growing, caespitose, epiphytic species in cool lower cloud forest, piedmont forests and gallery forests at elevations of 60 to 3200 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

4.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Warm

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/1069121-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1069121-2

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurgrobyi.htm. 

- https://www.ecuagenera.com/Specklinia-grobyi-small/en

- https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2019/04/masdevallia-rosea-care-and-culture.html

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specklinia_grobyi