Pleurothallis glumacea Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Tricarinatae Luer 1986 Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Luiz Filipe Varella
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Common Name The Glumacious Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/4" [1.9 cm]
Found in southeastern to southern Brazil on rough mossy bark in primary forests at elevations of 1300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the stout, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on 2 to 3 at once, racemose, 2.4" [6 cm] long, 4 to 9 flowered inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and can bloom for several years with new inflorescence from the same ramicaul and carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Acianthera glumacea (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia glumacea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis alexandrae Schltr. 1922; Pleurothallis alexandrae Schltr. 1923; Pleurothallis crocea Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis glaziovii Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis vitellina Porsch 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 103. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as P alexandre; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera glumacea
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