Muscarella aristata

"Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer is a species of orchid plant native to Guyana."

 Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 105: 96 (2006).

Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer, Photo by Kevin Holcomb 

its native range is Tropical America

Latin Name: 

Muscarella aristata (Hook.) Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Humboltia aristata (Hook.) Kuntze

Humboltia barberiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Muscarella barberiana (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sawicka

Pleurothallis aristata Hook.

Pleurothallis barberiana Rchb.f.

Pleurothallis dichotoma Ames

Pleurothallis divexa Ames

Pleurothallis urbaniana Rchb.f.

Specklinia aristata (Hook.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase

Verapazia barbaeriana (Rchb.f.) Chiron & Szlach.

English Name:

The Spiked Pleurothallis.

Description: 

With a very short, terete ramicaul carrying a single apical, narrowly oblanceolate, apically tridentate leaf with a channeled petiole and 3 imbricate basal sheaths that blooms at any time of the year on a single, capillary, fractiflex, to 10 cm long, distichously laxly several flowered, racemose inflorescence that is much longer than the leaf with several, basal, imbricate, papery bracts and minute floral bracts.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Ecological:

In rain to cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 1500 m as a small sized, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms at any time of the year.

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

unknown 

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/77078958-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77078958-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscarella_aristata

http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleuraristata.htm.