Pleurothallis curti-bradei Pabst 1956 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Mentosae Luer 1986 Photo by the Niessen's and their Orquideas del Valle Website

LATER

Common Name The Curt & Brade Pleurothallis [Co-Discoverers of species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil in primary forests on mossy tree trunks in shade and moderate humidity and good air circulation as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, oval, pointed, dark green, unkeeled leaf that blooms in the later spring on a hair-like, .8" [2 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Pabstiella curti-bradei (Pabst) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis microcharis Schltr. ex Hoehne 1936; Specklinia curti-bradei (Pabst) Luer 2004; Trichosalpinx curti-bradei (Pabst) Luer 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 lip drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia curti-bradei; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Pabstiella curtii-bradei;

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