Pleurothallis hypnicola Lindl. 1842 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842
Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista.
Plant and Flower ensitu Alto de la Serra do Moji Dos Cruzes 150 meters Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.
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Common Name The Hypnea-Living Pleurothallis [A type of moss]
Flower Size 1/16" [1mm]
Found in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil on mossy trees at elevations around 150 meters as a miniature, hot to warm growing epiphyte on mossy trees with an erect, slender, green ramicaul carrying a single, apical, erect, dark shiny green, distinctively keeled, broadly lanceolate leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, fractiflex, 2.4" [6 cm] long, successively 6 flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution
Synonyms Humboldtia hypnicola (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pabstiella hypnicola (Lindl.) Luer 2007; Pleurothallis fusca Lindl. 1836; Specklinia hypnicola (Lindl.) F.de Barros 1984; Stelis hypnicola (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis hypnicola; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Pabstiella hypnicola
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