Specklinia brighamii

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Family: Orchidaceae

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Country of Origin: S. Mexico to Ecuador, Caribbean

Description: A miniature, caespitose, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species found in lower rain forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters with stems carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, bright lustrous green, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms successively on a apical, short to 3" [7.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence that is close to the length of the leaf, mostly in the summer.³

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Source: Unknown

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Liliopsida
• SubClass: monocots
• Order: Asparagales
• SubOrder:
• Family: Orchidaceae
• SubFamily: Epidendroideae
• Tribe: Epidendreae
• SubTribe: Pleurothallidinae

References:

1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.
2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.
3. Pleurothallis brighamii at Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia. Last accessed on Monday, 24 December, 2018.

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