Acianthera rinkei Luer 2006 [If it was in Pleurothallis] = SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Sicariae SUBSECTION Sicariae Luer 1986 Photo by © Byron Rinke

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Common Name Rinke's Acianthera [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador without locational data as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with sharply winged, laterally compressed, sulcate, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above the base and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, the basal margins decurrent to 1.2" [3 cm] onto the ramicaul and blooms in the fall and winter on a single, to .8" [2 cm] long, simultaneously severa lflowered inflroescence arising on top of the leaf and arising through a basal spathe at the apex of the ramicaul.

This species would be better placed within Pleurothallis in my database but it has not been described as such as of yet.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 drawing fide;

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