Specklinia florulenta (Linden & Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & Chase (2001:257)

3. Specklinia florulenta (Linden & Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & Chase (2001:257) View in CoL .

≡ Pleurothallis florulenta Linden & Reichenbach (in Reichenbach 1855: 223)

≡ Humboltia florulenta (Linden & Rchb.f.) Kuntze (1891: 667) .

Type:— COLOMBIA: Neu Granada, von Herrn Director Linden eingeführt und cultivirt, J.J. Linden 55 [holotype: W-0049044 [include an analytical drawing of the flower]!; isotypes: AMES-00074259 !, AMES-00074260 ! ( Figure 11 View FIGURE 11 )] .

Taxonomic discussion:— According to Linden & Reichenbach (1855), S. florulenta is characterized by its caespitose habit; linear, acute leaves that gradually taper toward the base into a long petiole indistinct to the leaf blade; racemose inflorescence, longer than the leaf, with a peduncle as long or shorter than the leaf; rachis with up to 10 distichous, simultaneous, yellowish, concolorous, erect flowers; pedicels spaced along the rachis and as long as the flower; dorsal sepal lanceolate, acuminate, synsepal similar in form and size to the dorsal one; petals obliquely obovate-spathulate, rounded, and lip oval to elliptic, rounded.

Although the basonym of this was transferred to Specklinia by Pridgeon & Chase (2001), some authors ( Govaerts 2004, Luer 2005, Bogarín et al. 2014, Luer 2023) have continued considering it conspecific with S. picta , or its nomenclatural synonym, P. picta . Here, we consider these names as representing distinct taxa, which can be differentiated based on the morphological traits compared in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Distribution:— Colombia.

Specimens examined: — COLOMBIA. Unknown locality, cultivated by Amelia Lehmann de Sarria in Popayan, 25 July 1978, C.A. Luer 3004 ( SEL!); cultivated by Amelia Lehmann de Sarria in Popayan, 16 November 1982, C.A. Luer 8441 (SEL [juvenile specimen]!), C.A. Luer 8442 ( SEL!).