Pleurothallis hirsutula Fawc. & Rendle 1909 SUBSECTION Acianthera SECTION Tomentosae Luer 1986 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

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Common Name The Rough Pleurothallis

Found in Jamaica at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a caespitose, small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a sessile, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate-ligulate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 5, filiform, laxly few flowered, racemose inflorescence that is shorter than the leaf

Synonyms Acianthera hirsutula (Fawc. & Rendle) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera hirsutula; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide;

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