Pleurothallis geminicaulina Ames 1923 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Twin Stemmed Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 200 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, elongate ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, close, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a 1.4" [3 cm] long, successively single to 3 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul.

Synonyms Acianthera geminicaulina (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orch. 6: 59. 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 231 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera geminicaulina; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004X drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Acianthera geminicaulina

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