Pleurothallis rubroviridis Lindl. 1858 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Sicariae SUBSECTION Sicariae Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name The Red Green Pleurothallis

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found in Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 950 to 1600 meters with a basally terete ramicaul that gradually widens to the ancipitous apex with 2 distichous, short to elongate bracts below, and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rugose, gradually narrowing below into the shortly conduplicate base leaf that is shallowly emarginate and blooms on a fasiculate, few flowered, subsessile, racemose inflorescence with fleshy, musty smelling flowers and occuring in nature in the spring

Synonyms Acianthera cubensis (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera rubroviridis (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Humboldtia cubensis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia rubroviridis [Lindl.] Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis cubensis Lindl. 1858

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 165 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing soso; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera rubroviridis; Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide; Icoens Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI 2004 drawing ok; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Acianthera rubroviridis; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo;

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