Barbosella macaheensis (Cogn.) Luer 2000 SUBGENUS Barbosella Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Alto Macahe' Barbosella [An area of Rio de Janiero State of Brazil]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Rio de Janiero State of Brazil without locality as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with a slender repent rhizome giving rise to an ascending to erect ramicaul enveloped by 1 to 2, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, erect, 1" to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, inflated, infundibular floral bract.
Synonyms *Pleurothallis macaheensis Cogn. 1906 publ. 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1984 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006;
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