Need to ID this pleurothallid

[RobS]

Wait for flowers although I understand getting plants to flower is easier when you know how you have to treat them. Identification without flowers is very hard and inacurate.

[Tindomul]

Cool thread.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Alright, check this out...

If there are any new growths on the plant that have gotten to be at least 2 or 3 mm tall, please post a pic and compare it with the following photo.

IOSPE PHOTOS

If you look at the sheaths on the stem of the Trichosalpinx orbiculata leading up to the leaf, notice how the top of the sheath ends in a circular, funnel-like appearance with hairy fringes around the edges.

That is a lepanthiform sheath (bract).

Here's another example of what lepanthiform sheaths look like from a Lepanthes aculeata:

IOSPE PHOTOS

Again, notice the sheaths end in a circular, funnel-like appearance with hairy fringes around the edges.

More difficult to make out because of the photo, but this is an example from Lepanthopsis (disregard what it says on the link, it's a link to a photo of a Lpths):

My fish and shrimps

New growths will have the lepanthiform sheaths forming.

[Mantellaprince20]

I am finally able to resurrect this thread. I have finally gotten flowers from this orchid (I killed the original plant, but picked up 2 more from same vendor) and believe I am very close to an identity .

I believe it to be in the Genus Pleurothallis, under the Subgenus specklinia section effusae. The species appears to be Pleurothallis erucosa, which orchidspecies.com gives a very good description which seems to describe this plant. IOSPE PHOTOS

I'm waiting on my photo's to upload, and then I will post them up later today.

[Mantellaprince20]

Here is the flower:



Thanks for all the help I have received on this topic,

ed parker

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Got pics of the plant as well? This clearly looks like a different plant from the one you inquired about initially.

[Mantellaprince20]

Originally Posted by King_of_orchid_growing:)

Got pics of the plant as well? This clearly looks like a different plant from the one you inquired about initially.

I am pretty sure it is the same plant, although these plants are a little bit shorter and a little bit more full. I just figured they were younger plants or maybe grown a little bit different. The flower photo is of one that had the inflorescence above the leaf rather than under, but most of the leaves have the inflorescence under. I will take some full plant pictures later today, but here are a few others.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

The closest I can come up with is Trichosalpinx species. I don't recognize very many Pleurothallis with this kind of growth habit.

Trichosalpinx is not a genus I'm terribly familiar with. There are lots of them around, many of which are still not identified.

I'm sticking to the identity of this plant being within the genus Trichosalpinx. Nailing down the species name is not going to be easy.

[Mantellaprince20]

Almost 99percent positive it is Pleurothallis imraei . SOF » Stelis imraei

It comes from ecuagenera, erucosa has more slender leaves