Specklinia barbae

Specklinia barbae (Schltr.) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 259 (2004).

Specklinia barbae (Schltr.) Luer, Photo by Wiel Driessen 

its native range is Costa Rica to Panama.

Latin Name: 

Specklinia barbae (Schltr.) Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Pleurothallis barbae Schltr.

Sarcinula barbae (Schltr.) Luer

English Name:

The Barva Volcano Pleurothallis (A Volcano in Costa Rica).

Description: 

With a slender, erect, ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, slender, 4 to 5 cm long, congested, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular, imbricating floral bracts.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Panamá. 

Ecological:

At elevatons of 1600 to 2400 m as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/60436857-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60436857-2

http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurbarbae.htm 

http://orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2010/08/kraenzlinella-sigmoidea.html

https://orchids.fandom.com