Madisonia spiculifera (Lindl.) Toscano & Smidt, 2021

Smidt, Eric De Camargo, Toscano De Brito, A. L. V., Mauad, Anna Victoria Silvério R. & Morales, Nicolás Gutiérrez, 2021, An expanded concept of Madisonia including miscellaneous species of Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): evidence from molecular analysis, Phytotaxa 505 (1), pp. 71-84 : 81

8. Madisonia spiculifera (Lindl.) Toscano & Smidt , comb. nov.

Basionym: Pleurothallis spiculifera Lindley (1859: 43) . Homotypic synonym: Humboltia spiculifera (Lindl.) Kuntze (1891: 668) . Specklinia spiculifera (Lindl.) Pridgeon & Chase (2001: 259) . Anathallis spiculifera (Lindl.) Luer (2009: 259) Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. It inhabits moist broadleaf forests including the Amazon Rainforest ( Luer 2006, Silva & Silva 2010, Koch et al. 2014, Betancur et al.

2015).