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Orchid Species: Humboltia subpellucida

Kew currently accepted name is Pleurothallis loranthophylla

Humboltia subpellucida is an orchid species identified by (Klotzsch) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallis loranthophylla.
Genus
Humboltia (Humboltia.)
Grex
subpellucida
Parents
Species
Author
(Klotzsch) Kuntze
Year
1891
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ORIGIN: Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of sea-level to 2100 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia as a small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte in wet montane forests and piedmont forests at elevations of sea-level to 2100 meters with a slender, terete ramicaul enveloped basally by a few, tubular, sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acuminate, narrows rapidly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 1 or 2 erect, 2 [5 cm] long, arching, several flowered, racemose inflorescence, holding the flowers over the leaf and subtended by a elongate, oblong, compressed spathe.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [0.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths loranthophylla 1852 Rchb.f.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths intermedia 1919 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths navicularis 1859 Lindl.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths spathata 1929 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths subpellucida 1852 Klotzsch
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths violaceorosea 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Rhynchopera Rnp punctata 1849 H.Karst.
Add+ Rhynchopera Rnp loranthophylla 2001 (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Marg.
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia loranthophylla 1891 (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
Add+ Humboltia Humboltia navicularis 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pths. loranthophylla 'Jardin botanique de Montreal' (2007) Pths. loranthophylla 'Bryon' (2005) Pths. loranthophylla 'Grey Beard' (1998) Pths. loranthophylla 'Joyce's Patience' (1997) Pths. loranthophylla 'Mountainside' (1997)
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