Pleurothallis glanduligera Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859
Plant Photos courtesy of © Luiz Filipe Varella
Common Name The Gland Bearing Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Eastern Brazil at elevations around 900 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a cylindrical erect ramicaul enveloped basally by a few tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, ovate or lanceolate, stiff, sessile leaf with reddish spotches that blooms in the fall through spring on a short, 1 to 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence.
This species is often given as a synonym of P saundersiana but differs in having the dorsal sepal united to the laterals and has an obovate and concave shape to the dorsal sepal as well.
Synonyms Acianthera cearensis (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Acianthera cryptoceras (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 2003; Acianthera glanduligera (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Acianthera iguapensis (Schltr.) F.Barros 2004; Anathallis iguapensis (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia glanduligera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis altoserrana Hoehne 1929; Pleurothallis cearensis Schltr. 1921; Pleurothallis cryptoceras Rchb. 1886; Pleurothallis iguapensis Schltr. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 as P cryptoceras drawing fide; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1896 drawing; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera cearensis; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Acianthera glanduligeraOrquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
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