Barbrodria miersii (Lindl.) Luer 1981 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

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Common Name Mier's Barbrodria [English Botanist in Brazil 1800's]

Flower Size 1/8" [.3 cm]

Found in Brazil as a miniature, creeping, mat forming, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome with a short ramicaul enveloped by an acuminate sheath and carrying a single, ovoid, gradually narrowing below into the short petiole leaf that blooms a couple of times a year on a 1/2" [1.25 cm] long single flowered inflorescence that holds the flower well above the leaf.

Synonyms Barbosella miersii (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Humboldtia miersii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia miersii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Pleurothallis miersii Lindl. 1842; Restrepia miersii (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1977 as Barbosella miersii; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992 as Barbosella miersii; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 as Barbosella miersii; ;