Specklinia mitchellii

Specklinia mitchellii (Dod) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 262 (2004).

Specklinia mitchellii (Dod) Luer, Photo by Wiel Driessen  

 its native range is Haiti (Massif de la Hotte).

Latin Name: 

Specklinia mitchellii (Dod) Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Anathallis mitchellii (Dod) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Pleurothallis mitchellii Dod

English Name:

Mitchell's Pleurothallis (American orchid enthusiast in Haiti).

Description: 

With slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ellipitcal, subacute to obtuse, microscopically erose, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, distichous, 1.5 cm long including the 5 mm long peduncle, loose, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and has an oblique acute floral bract.

Distribution:

Haiti. 

Ecological:

At elevations around 950 m as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte .

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in intermediate to warm 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/60437064-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60437064-2

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

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