Barbosella crassifolia (Edwall) Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Barbosella Photo By © Dalton Holland Baptista

LATEand EARLIER

Common Name The Thick Leafed Barbosella

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found eastern and southern Brazil in dense primary forests at elevations of 950 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, mat forming epiphyte with ascending ramicauls enveloped by a thin, tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, prostrate, thickly coriaceous, suborbicular to elliptical, entire apically, obtuse t orounded, rounded and contracted below into the pnearly absent petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, .6 to 1.12" [1.5 to .8 cm] long, single flowered inflorscence with a minute bract below the middle and an oblique floral bract.

Synonyms Barbosella crassifolia var. aristata Hoehne 1947; Barbosella crassifolia var. genuina Hoehne 1947; Barbosella crassifolia var. hamburgensis (Kraenzl.) Garay 1953; Barbosella crassifolia var. minor Hoehne 1947; Barbosella hamburgensis (Kraenzl.) Hoehne 1947; Pleurothallis hamburgensis Kraenzl. 1911; Restrepia crassifolia Edwall 1903

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Col XX Luer 2000 drawing fide;

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