Source de la synonymie
Luer, C. A., 2006. Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVIII. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 105: 1-274. [CD_REF = 840121] Muscarella marginata (Rich.) Luer, 2006

 

Date de publication : Gard. Chron., n.s., 18(458): 457. 1882 [07/10/1882]

Description originale : Pleurothallis spectrilinguis, nov. sp. - (Apodae caespitosae). Folia spatulato parvulo; inflorescentia tenui corymbosa scopiformi; sepalis oblongis caudatis dorso carinatis; tepalis lanceis crenatis triplo minoribus; labelli trifidi laciniis lateralibus triangulis curvatis retrorsis antice incumbentibus, lacinia antica elliptica lacero-fimbriata; columna arcuata gracili superne dilatata. H. G. Rchb. f.
This is allied to the species that bears the name of that distinguished orchidist, Mr. John Barber, of Old Hall, Spondon, [Pleurothallis barberiana Rchb.f. 1881 ≡ Muscarella barberiana (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sawicka 2012] but is smaller and has another kind of inflorescence. The spatulate leaves reach scarcely an inch in length and are rather narrow. The thin peduncle bears nearly a dozen of flowers at its top, which might be colled corymbose, the pedicels being long and unequal. The hyaline, triangular, cuspidate, 1-nerved. Lip dark olive-greenish-brown, with basilar retrorse horns and a fimbriate anterior elliptical blade. I had this fine gem from Mr. James O'Brien, West Street, Harrow-on-the-Hill. H. G. Rchb. f.

Type : Origine inconnue, cultivée au jardin botanique de Hambourg, reçu en 13 de Mr. James O'Brien s.n. (HT: W [n.v.; fide Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard., 105: 112. 2006]).