Anathallis

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Anathallis sertularioides (Jul 2023).Pleurothallis sertularioides is synonymous with Anathallis sertularioides. This flower matches Andy's Orchids photo in form and color in the IOSPE and the leaves and plant habit also match with A. sertularioides. This plant also matches the description and drawing of Anathallis sertularioides as Panmorphia sertularioides; in Luer's Icones Pleurothallidinarum 28 Systematics of Pleurothallidinae. Also matches several of the photos of A. sertularioides in orchidroots.com.

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1

Leaf Length: 2.0

Leaf Width: 0.5

Leaf Margin: smooth

Leaf Shape: linear-oblanceolate, to linear-spathulate

Pseudobulb Length: 0.5

Pseudobulb Width: 0.1

Pseudobulb Root Tip: green

Inflorescence Overall Length: 1.5

Ovary Length: 0.1

Ovary Width: 0.05

Ovary Shape: terete

Ovary Color: light green

Ovary Texture: ribbed longitudinally

Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.3

Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.4

Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.4

Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.2

Lateral Sepals Length: 0.4

Lateral Sepals Width: 0.1

Petals Length: 0.3

Petals Width: 0.1

Judging Center: Great Plains Judging Center

Award Number: 20223612

Award Date: October 15, 2022

31 cupped flowers and 29 buds on 60 filiform inflorescence light green up to 1.5cm long that arise from the leaf base, mat forming, miniature sized, with a slender creeping rhizome and erect ramicauls enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, conduplicate leaf, apical, linear-oblanceolate, to linear-spathulate, largest leaf 0.5cm wide x 2.0cm long, medium green, smooth margins, ramicaul 0.1cm wide x 0.5cm long; sepals, petals and lip translucent cream-white blending to yellow on distal half; sepals glabrous, ovate, acute; petals glabrous, narrowly subfalcate-ovate, acute; lip cellular-glandular, oblong-ovate, narrowly obtuse at the apex; column white, 0.05cm wide x 0.1cm long, semiterete; anther cap light yellow; ovary 0.05cm wide x 0.1cm long, terete, ribbed longitudinally, light green; substance firm; texture crystalline; species from Jamaica; ID by SITF ______________.
**Icones Pleurothallidinarum 28, pages 174-176, 190.

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