Pleurothallis heterophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.1896 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Lindley 1859
Photos by © Luis Renato and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Cogniaux
Common Name or Meaning The Different Leafed Pleurothallis
Flower Size
Found in eastern & southern Brazil in wet humid forests at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 brown sheaths and carrying a single, apical, various shaped from lanceolate to ellitpical, leathery, dark olive green to wine red, conduplicate and attenuate into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, mostly simultaneously to 8 flowered inflorescence and carrying fragrant flowers
Synonyms Anathallis heterophylla Barb.Rodr. 1881; Pleurothallis hoehnei Schltr. 1926; Specklinia heterophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 74 Barb Rodr. 1881
* Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:556 Martius, Cogniaux 1896
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:tab111 Martius, Cogniaux 1896 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:249 Pridgeon & Chase 2001as Anathallis heterophylla;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia heterophlla;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
Novon 18: 78 Luer 2008 as Anathallis liparanges;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis heterophylla photo fide
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