Specklinia montezumae (Luer) Luer

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

Specklinia montezumae (Luer) Luer, Photo by Wiel Driessen  

its native range is Costa Rica.

Latin Name: 

Specklinia montezumae (Luer) Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Gerardoa montezumae (Luer) Luer

Kraenzlinella rinkei Luer

Pleurothallis montezumae Luer

English Name:

The Cerro Montezuma Pleurothallis (A mountain in Costa Rica).

Description: 

With an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a 1 to 1.5 cm long, successively 2 flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.

Distribution:

Costa Rica. 

Ecological:

The Cerro Montezuma Pleurothallis (A mountain in Costa Rica).

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

I have it growing in a specially thrown clay pot with extra drainage and in live sphagnum moss.

Typus:

Oct 1, 1994 Herrera, G [6280], Costa Rica Pleurothallis montezumae K000463180 holotype

Herrara [6280] Pleurothallis montezumae 59489.000 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/60437067-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60437067-2

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

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