Specklinia florulenta Pridgeon & Chase 2001

3. Specklinia florulenta (Linden & Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & Chase (2001:257). ≡ 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)]. 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. 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!).