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Aspidogyne argentea (Vell.) Garay 1977 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Probably not A argentata as the leaves are in a rosette, Plant in situ in Boia Ceia Brazil At elevations of 30 meters Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Silvery Aspidogyne

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela?, southeastern Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid at elevations of sea level to 500 meters with an erect stem carrying a few distant erect-patent, widely lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, scute to shortly acuminate, reticulate with silver on dark green, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, pubescent, 2.4 to 10" [6 to 25 cm] long, few to densely many flowered inflorescence..

Synonyms Anoectochilus argenteus (Vell.) Loudon 1850; Anoectochilus pictus (Lindl.) Loudon 1850; Erythrodes picta (Lindl.) Ames 1915; Erythrodes picta var. reticularis (Rchb.f.) Pabst 1972; Microchilus pictus (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; *Ophrys argentea Vell. 1831; Physurus argenteus (Vell.) Koch & Lauch 1857; Physurus callodictyus Kraenzl. 1911; Physurus pictus Lindl. 1840; Physurus pictus var. holargyrus Rchb.f. 1857; Physurus pictus var. reticularis Rchb.f 1857

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 as Physurus pictus drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as Physurus callodictyus drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as Physurus pictus var reticularis drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Erythrodes picta; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson 1994; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005;

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